While many people have languished during the Covid-19 pandemic, others have felt a more complicated state called emotional ambivalence: the simultaneous experience of positive and negative emotions ...

The pandemic, economic uncertainty, and recent layoffs have brought many people to career — and thus, identity — inflection points: life’s “what now?” or “fork-in-the-road” moments when people must ...

Twenty years ago I was asked to write a blurb for a book called “Women Who Think Too Much.” I was indignant. How can a woman think too much? Thinking is good! The very idea is sexist — nobody would ...

With all the challenges, changes, and losses accompanying this unusual holiday season, ambivalence and ambiguity will be common experiences for many. What is ambivalence, you ask? According to ...

Ambivalence — defined as a state of indecision — usually won’t win you points with colleagues. How could that be useful, right? A new study suggests that, lo and behold, ambivalence is not a bug in ...

It is quite common for people not to be able to make up their minds. One of the most famous literary examples comes from Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, in which the protagonist Hamlet poses the ...

Decide, already! It’s time, yes? This summer’s launch into retirement has been … interesting. Sixty years since investing a hard-won journalism degree into the early dawn police beat at the Ypsilanti ...

Ambivalence refers to the state of having mixed, conflicting, or opposing feelings about a person, situation, or decision at the same time. It spots the emotional tug-of-war when attraction and ...