Source: Car Pickhardt Ph.D. Ambivalence is the motivational inconsistency between simultaneously desiring and not desiring to make a given choice, or the perceptual inconsistency between seeing some ...

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 ...

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 ...