One of the first things I explain to my anxious clients when they come in for therapy is that avoidance maintains anxiety; anything you do to avoid or escape anxiety triggers in the short-term gives ...

In times of flux or evolution, there are always those who resist change and especially the big, scary element that comes with it, uncertainty. This tendency is an actual “thing” that sociologists and ...

Anxiety can be thought of as a future-oriented emotional state that is characterized by anticipatory cognitive, behavioural and affective changes in response to uncertainty about potential threat.

In my last post, we looked at the importance of culturability, “the relationship between culture and usability in WWW design” [1], and specifically, Individualism vs Collectivism [2], when designing ...

What innovators have learnt that empowers them to face the uncertainty of new pursuits. Why are we so often unnerved by uncertainty? If you look back at the most significant events in your life, those ...

We focus on exploratory decisions across disorders of compulsivity, a potential dimensional construct for the classification of mental disorders. Behaviors associated with the pathological use of ...