Passive-aggressive behavior occurs frequently in everyday interactions with our friends, romantic partners, family members ...

Call it hostile cooperation, sugarcoated hostility, or compliant defiance. Call it all of the above. Passive aggression does not alternate between passive behavior and aggressive behavior, but rather ...

While everyone slips into passive-aggressive behavior occasionally, really passive-aggressive people often reveal themselves ...

Do you work with a student who consistently performs at a level that is beneath his ability? Is there a child in your classroom who habitually procrastinates, predictably “forgets,” and inevitably ...

Have you ever had someone say "I'm fine" (when they are clearly not) or a co-worker who "forgets" to do something you asked them to do (when they obviously just don't want to do it)? Those are ...

Slipping into passive-aggressive territory when speaking with a loved one isn't hard. You need to know the phrases to look ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Marriage can be a tricky landscape to navigate, where direct confrontations often give way to subtler forms of communication.

Growing up, many of us were conditioned not to be too aggressive, either physically or verbally. You likely had some school and house rules, such as "no hitting, kicking and biting." Name-calling and ...

Fortunately, we have come a long way. Today, success in modern organizations often depends on the ability to at least appear or seem gentle, collaborative, and emotionally intelligent. Few people ...

High-IQ women respond to passive-aggressive friends with calm boundaries and emotional control, not by stooping to their ...

Michael Stevens, chairman of Weber State University’s department of business administration, has taught courses in organizational behavior and group psychology for 25 years. After coming to Utah in ...