Some relationships don’t end with closure. Healing from ambiguous loss means living inside the truth of what’s been lost, and uncovering what that means to us today.

Are you dismissing small signals that may portend danger to your business? Ignore these ambiguous threats, and you could imperil your company. Pharmaceutical giant Merck discovered this firsthand when ...

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 ...

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 ...