“Self-esteem” entails our overarching feelings about our worth or abilities and attributes. Healthy self-esteem entails a positive attitude about ourselves, life in general, and our capacity to deal ...

The distinction between implicit and explicit motives has long been a subject of scholarly investigation in psychology, offering profound insights into human behaviour. Implicit motives refer to the ...

Your implicit memory helps you remember how to do things without consciously thinking about it. It includes skills and habits, like how to ride a bike and how to get around your house. It also ...

The notion that East Asians, Japanese in particular, are self-effacing and have low self-esteem compared to Americans may well describe the surface view of East Asian personality, but misses the ...

A 2005 study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology argued that, “The need for positive self-regard, as it is currently conceptualized, is not a universal [ideal], but rather is rooted in ...

Men may subconsciously suffer a bruised ego when their wives or girlfriends excel, regardless of whether it's in the academic or social realm and regardless of whether the couple is in direct ...