While the choice was hardly life-altering, I’ve often thought about it as an allegory for my relationship to rejection more ...

Step one in promotion rejection is to refine your messaging and water down any fires created by that rejection.

Anyone who has experienced rejection knows the gut-wrenching anguish of being dismissed. Whether it's a pass over from your boss for the promotion you've worked so hard for, or abandonment from a ...

Social rejection is a price paid by those who have the courage to be vulnerable. Game theory sheds some light on the interpersonal dynamics.

Hooray! You took a risk and put yourself out there. But after all of that emotional effort, it didn’t go as planned, and now you’re feeling just a bit wounded. Everyone deals with rejection at one ...

Let's be real—rejection sucks. Actually, "it sucks the big one," says Rachel Wright, LMFT, a licensed marriage and family therapist in New York City. Research even shows that the brain reacts to ...

Rejection isn’t personal; it’s a business decision based on strategy. Successful founders turn investor feedback into opportunities for growth. Emotional resilience in rejection builds credibility and ...

Rejection is unfortunately very common on dating apps. Remind yourself it isn’t personal, even if if feels like it.