A new study reviewed and challenged Kurt Lewin’s long-standing motivational conflicts theory with new findings that suggest the difficulty of resolving conflicts depends on the emotional context. The ...

Family conflicts possess the unique power to wound more deeply than disagreements with strangers, precisely because they occur between people who matter most to us and whose opinions carry the ...

One of the more promising recent workforce developments is that teams are increasingly composed of people from all walks of life. They bring different ideas, which most of us consider a good thing ...

On a campus with more than 30,000 people, we encounter different perspectives, behaviors and beliefs with everyone we meet. Sometimes disagreements can happen as we get to know others—it might be with ...

There’s a Polish proverb that sums up how a lot of us approach conflict: “A good run is better than a bad fight.” As a couples therapist, it seems to me that most people fall into one of two ...

I recently spent some time travelling with my father. We haven’t lived together for a long time and are both rather set in our ways. As one would expect, we had a fight. My typical manner of resolving ...