When someone constantly speaks to you from a place of indirect judgment because they're afraid to say what they think, it's ...

While passive-aggressive behavior can be hard to pin down, experts agree on the most common signs, which include refusing to discuss concerns openly and directly, avoiding responsibility, and ...

Passive-aggressive behavior is defined as behavior that is seemingly innocuous, accidental, or neutral but that *indirectly* displays an unconscious aggressive motive. People who are passive ...

Passive-aggressive behavior is a subtle yet destructive form of expression that hits our personal and professional relationships stealthily. While aggression is outright, passive aggression will ...

Condescending comments, put-downs and sarcasm — all hallmarks of passive-aggressive behavior — contribute to an environment of incivility, according to experts. Left unchecked ...

To create their Passive Aggression Scale, Lim and Suh recruited experts (people with a background in psychology, human behavior or counseling) to answer a series of open-end questions about ...

"The goal of the passive-aggressive person is to get someone else to visibly act out the anger that they have been concealing," social worker Signe Whitson, author of "The Angry Smile," told ...