The last time I saw my dad, we test-drove a Jet Ski. He'd just repaired it for a customer, and the lake that day was flawless. "Hold on tight," he said before we sped off. I was 20. I wrapped my arms ...

Some grief is clear and immediate: A spouse or parent passes away, and you mourn their loss alongside your community. But other types of grief arrive quietly. There's no funeral, no clear goodbye, no ...

No breakup conversation, no clear ending, no closure—just the quiet grief of a relationship that simply faded. Ambiguous loss is grief without a clear ending. It happens when a relationship fades, ...

In a neuroimaging study published in PNAS, a team of researchers led by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in ...

Part 2 in a series. Read Part 1 here. In the first installment of this series, I discussed the small losses of everyday life and how important it is for parents to try to tolerate their children’s ...

Grief is a universal experience. Regardless of geography, socio-economic status, age, or gender, humans grieve when a loved one dies. But what about loss that changes or ends the relationship without ...

Findings from two related experiments show that people are apt to cheat on a task in favor of their self-interest but only when the situation is ambiguous enough to provide moral cover. To maintain ...

Ambiguous means unclear or open to interpretation. In advertising, you want to avoid generalized statements that could be applied to any brands or products. Instead, you usually want clear, concise ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. The last time I saw my dad, we test-drove a Jet Ski. He'd just repaired it for a customer, and the lake that day was ...