Making important life decisions often brings about a sense of anxiety which then drives us to seek advice from a trusted person or trusted people. If anxiety and advice-seeking seem inter-related, it’s because they are. Anxiety forces us to feel less confident about ourselves and our ability to make sound decisions, and, for that reason, we feel the need to solicit another person to help us make the decision. Big issues occur if, and when, we take bad advice. Unfortunately, because of anxiety’s socio-biological effect on our decision-making ability, we are more likely to do this.Read the entire article here: Jumping and Jonesing for Guidance: Anxiety’s Effects on Seeking, Taking, and Parsing Advice.