Emotional distance is often described as coldness, avoidance, or a lack of care, but psychologists suggest that, for many people, it functions as a quiet form of control over internal experience ...

What our latest work suggests is that a lack of agency in others makes them seem quite boring to us. With my colleague John Eastwood, we wrote about what made a person boring in an earlier PT blog.

There’s a quiet panic that surfaces when the systems you rely on stop responding. When effort doesn’t equal outcome. When plans no longer hold their shape. Loss of control doesn’t arrive loudly — it ...