Comfort with ambiguity isn’t about tolerance for chaos. Rather it's an opportunity to be creative, craft a vision, and build ...

As the morning of June 24 dawned, just hours after a large portion of the Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Fla., had collapsed, more than 150 people were unaccounted for.

I last saw my dad when I was 20. Our estrangement was confusing and made me feel unworthy of love. I learned about ambiguous loss, and it gave me the language to heal. The last time I saw my dad, we ...

From childhood, we are taught how to solve problems – first in school, then at work. The quicker, the better. It’s as if there is a clear answer to everything. This worries Dr Pauline Boss, who ...

Ambiguous means unclear or open to interpretation. In advertising, you want to avoid generalized statements that could be applied to any brands or products. Instead, you usually want clear, concise ...

Part 2 in a series. Read Part 1 here. In the first installment of this series, I discussed the small losses of everyday life and how important it is for parents to try to tolerate their children’s ...

Ambiguous language in an arbitration agreement is not a sufficient basis for concluding a party has agreed to class arbitration, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week. In Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Verela, ...

When we use language, it seems so easy to understand what other people are saying that it is hard to appreciate the complexity of the act of carrying on a conversation. Obviously, we miscommunicate at ...

Findings from two related experiments show that people are apt to cheat on a task in favor of their self-interest but only when the situation is ambiguous enough to provide moral cover. To maintain ...

Big changes have played out at Irvine-based Ambiguous Industries, one of Orange County’s “buzz” clothing makers. Ambiguous, hip among teen boys, was bought late last year by Irvine-based Ray’s Apparel ...