Digital technology allows people to construct and vary their self-identity more easily than they can in the real world. This novel digital-personality construction may, or may not, be helpful to that ...

When being praised, people may respond with self-enhancing or self-deprecating statements to manipulate how others perceive them. Kobe University and University of Sussex researchers presented ...

Self-efficacy can be defined as the belief that you can be successful when carrying out a certain task. The idea of a self-efficacy theory was first proposed in the 1960s by Albert Bandura, a Stanford ...

When people want to self-improve, they usually try to do it directly, through deliberate habit building. However, I tend to think the best self-improvement happens indirectly. You pursue something ...