In a previous PT blog post, I introduced Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies theory. This theory suggests that differences in achieving happiness can be explained by the importance people place on ...

It’s a new semester, so I briefly want to revisit a perennial topic among academics: the increasing demands on our time from e-mail, social media, and the internet more generally. I often hear this ...

Do you have unrealistic expectations about a promotion, elationship, or anything else? Here, apro explains how narcissism factors in to deciphering. Anyone’s who’s ever lived a day or had any desire ...

Setting and managing expectations is key to organizational success. It is a principal role of any leader. And whilst we may be very good at it when it comes to our employees, sometimes we need a ...

We all have expectations. We expect the sun to rise and seasons to change (all in one day for those of us in Tennessee). We expect our spouse to put their dirty clothes in the hamper. We expect the ...

There’s pessimism. There’s optimism. Then there’s another, lesser explored but deeply significant state — expectation. That feeling of knowing, or believing we know, what’s going to happen. And while ...

Every relationship operates on a complex foundation of expectations – the unwritten rules and assumptions about how partners should behave, what they should prioritize, and how they should express ...