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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

No symbolic system [i.e., basis for culture] in history has been able to rival religious faith, which forges a bond between the routine behavior… of individuals and ultimate, imperishable truths. It’s ...

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