When Ellie Shoja goes for a walk, she slips on her headphones and starts talking—but there’s no other voice ricocheting through the speakers. It’s merely a convenient way to disguise the fact that she ...

Do you ever find yourself talking to yourself out loud while tidying up, cooking, or even thinking? If so, rest assured: it's neither strange nor worrisome. On the contrary, this habit can be ...

"Talking out loud helps us make sense of situations," one expert says.

An old professor of mine once demonstrated to me that if I described a headache out loud—its color and shape, what substance it was made of, what it would say if it were a 6-year-old—it would often ...

Some people are overstimulated by things they can't control, but it can actually point to how high their intelligence is. So, ...