Mind

Waiting for something to go wrong when nothing is? Worry works as a buffer against the drop. What the contrast avoidance research found, plus one practice.

Catastrophic thinking treats the worst case as the likely one and skips the boring middle. A psychologist’s three-part scale explains why, and names the exact move that interrupts it.

The colleague who ‘has it together’ only shows you an hour of her day. Why that comparison misleads you at work — and a two-minute way to even the score.

Why do I feel like a fraud at work when the results are all there? It tracks evaluation, not ability. What the research shows, and what it still does not.