Imagine you are offered a chance to move to a new school. You feel excited about new friends. At the same time, you feel sad about leaving old ones. You feel two opposite emotions together. This ...

Debates swirling around Clint Eastwood’s movie “American Sniper,” based on the memoir of U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, point to a deep ambivalence over the role of the military sniper, whose job it is to ...

The word “ambivalent” comes from the roots “ambi” meaning “both” and “valentia” meaning “strength.” To be ambivalent about something is to be pulled in opposite directions. There is nothing ...