Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Many of us feel an affinity for a certain historical time that ...

For the past few years, I have had to ask myself a question I never asked before in my life: What should we call the era we’re living in today? I was born into the “Cold War” era, and most of my ...

I have been told, countless times, that I look like I belong in a different era. Perhaps it’s the way I dress—which bounces between a 1950s housewife and ‘70s gogo dancer—or my chin-skimming bob, ...