Negotiation in the best of circumstances is a delicate balance and often nerve-wracking for all parties involved. But attempting to make deals with difficult, uncooperative parties can quickly ...

We all must cope with change in our lives. We know it will come. Some change can be overwhelming, even frightening. It can also be abrupt, not planned or expected, so you can’t prepare. Change can add ...

Cognitive reframing operates on the basis that everyone’s perceptions and feelings are unique. Your perceptions of an event, for instance, may be very different from those of a friend or co-worker.

The fictional hero Tom Sawyer was highly skilled at reframing a situation. When Sawyer was forced to spend a holiday whitewashing a fence, his friends teased him, because he had to work while they ...

For many of us, our natural instinct when feeling anxious is to try to escape the feeling entirely. We use relaxation techniques, such as deep breathing exercises, in an attempt to calm down and ...

You did not receive an invitation to an event. We all develop beliefs about why certain things happen at the instance they occur. This may cause anger, sadness, rejection, and may result in negative ...

“Harvard researchers reverse aging in mice, study suggests.” So proclaims a recent headline about a successful effort to improve the health of older mice. The story—one of many about the study that ...

My take: Current AI systems use a technique called ‘reinforcement learning,’ which adapts the AI’s strategy in its pursuit to maximize a reward. Mistakes, in this sense, are accounted for and form an ...