It may help make you more likely to act. By Malia Wollan “You can use ambivalence as a shield against the fear of rejection,” says Taly Reich, an associate professor of marketing at Yale.

A paradigmatic example is longing. Indeed, this could be regarded as the very definition of ambivalence, being ‘a blend of the primary emotions of happiness and sadness’ 2. More poetically ...

Young and politically cross-pressured: Conservative on economics and issues of race and gender, less so on immigration, social issues On issues ranging from the size of the federal government to views ...

I had not yet been introduced to the idea of emotional ambivalence. I now think it likely that part of the reason the words written in ink on the desk in the classroom made such an impression on ...