When anxiety strikes, self-awareness can morph into toxic rumination. Here's how it can deepen your crisis instead of helping ...

Self-respect (also referred to as “appraisal self-respect”) is the belief that someone deserves dignity and regard because ...

According to researchers Reischer, Roth, Villarreal and McAdams (2020) in the Journal of Personality, self-transcendence “is the phenomenon of experiencing one's self as expanding both backward and ...

A new study finds people who habitually try to be happier also tend to have less willpower. Researchers have a new explanation for why we experience the "happiness paradox" -- a phenomenon wherein ...

People with autism have a different sense of self when compared to those without the condition, scientists believe. The developmental disability which affects around one in 59 children in the U.S. is ...