Billie Eilish’s “ocean eyes” is tonally ambivalent: It inhabits multiple keys at once, and in so doing captures the complex, conflicting emotional valences that make up our feelings. Tonal ambivalence ...

The question of whether to have kids sits at the awkward intersection of intensely personal decisions and important policy issues. That dynamic can lead to societal confusion. Policy makers and ...

In an earlier post, I discussed the difficulty of dealing with consciously ambivalent feelings. But now I would like to focus on a more pernicious type of ambivalence — unconscious ambivalence. People ...

Kelley Kitley, 45, thought her family was complete with two sons and a daughter. Then, after realizing she was a few days late getting her period, she took a pregnancy test. It was positive. "I was in ...

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 ...

Ambivalence is the state of experiencing conflicting emotions at the same time. It often emerges during decisions, life changes, or complex relationships, when attraction and hesitation coincide.

PhD Researcher, Department of Government and International Relations / Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney The flipside of the populism coin is voter ambivalence about “democracy” as we ...