Category Archives: Passive Aggressive Behavior

Are you passive, assertive, or aggressive?

Your communication style is important to recognize and define, as it affects how people react to you and how they address your needs. In the workplace, it can be especially important to know how you are communicating (and thus how you are perceived) as a professional colleague. It is also important in personal relationships, in [...]

What Do You Want From Your Relationship?

  If you could change something about your relationship, what would it be? More respect? More trust? More commitment? We all have times where our partners don’t give us what we want, but sometimes we also don’t get what we need - the basic foundation traits of a healthy relationship. Without our basic relationship needs being [...]

Don’t Let Work Aggression Spread to Your Home

Today we’ll highlight an issue that affects most of us: balancing workplace conflict with our home life. We’re all guilty of letting our frustration at work spread to our homes, but do we always notice it? And what are the effects?Here’s an interesting article from Scientific American that might open your eyes. “If you think that [...]

A Fast and Easy Way to Send Your Love

We’re always on the look out for new resources that can help you achieve greater relationship happiness in your life. Whether they’re books, forums or programs, our colleagues in the field of relationship psychology have a lot of interesting new ideas to share. In honor of Valentine’s Day, we wanted to share with you this [...]

So you believe to be a rational decision-maker? How wrong can you be?

New research is turning our old assumptions on human nature on their heads…like the belief that humans are rational decision-makers. They are emotional decision-makers…and this new framing opens a world of new possibilities for understand our behavior.