Even if your corporate culture is good, there will be internal conflicts from time to time. Personalities are bound to clash, and outside events can increase stress. If you notice the same kind of ...

Working from home is causing some employees to take work disagreements personally. This is because remote work blurs the line between task conflict and emotional conflict, according to Scott ...

Belinda Parmar is a diversity campaigner and the CEO of The Empathy Business. She can be found on LinkedIn here. In a world of toxic positivity, we are all too often encouraged to put a rosy sheen of ...

Disagreements over what needs to be done and/or how it should be done - can be a powerful driver of creativity, but predominantly when it comes from critical members and only when the team shares ...

Conflict makes many people so uncomfortable that they prefer to avoid or suppress it rather than dealing with it. However, conflict happens in every area of human life, and suppressing conflict may ...

Cognitive control encompasses the executive processes that enable individuals to maintain task focus, inhibit distractions, and adapt behaviour in response to conflict or changing task demands. A ...

Have you ever experienced a conflict in your workplace? Conflicts at work aren't always loud arguments—they can manifest in subtle ways like an eyeroll, a cold shoulder, or feeling unheard in meetings ...

Source: Woodcut from Basil Valentine's "Azoth," c. 1650, via Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. We are told from childhood to “play nice,” to keep the peace, to smooth things over. But what if this ...

The Stroop task remains a fundamental paradigm for investigating cognitive conflict and attentional control. In this task, participants are required to name the ink colour of a word that may itself ...