Does Your Pursuit of Self-Esteem Damage You?
How do we increase our self-esteem, and how do raise children with high self-esteem? Many self-help books try to answer questions like these. So, the pursuit …
Personality Psychology
Wear the Right Clothes and Make the Right Impressions on Others: Dress to Impress
Whether you like it or not: the clothes you wear makes a particular impression on others. Even subtle appearance cues lead others to judge our personality, status and …
Study: Choosing Products With Attractive Designs Affirms People’s Self-Image
People strive for consistency in beliefs and behaviors as they have a basic desire to affirm their self-image. Studies have shown that people choose products that are congruent …
Why Positive Self-Talk is Essential in Sports
Self-talk, or internal dialogue, is when people talk to themselves in either a positive or negative manner, e.g. “I can do it” or “I can’t …
3 Reasons Little Achievements Matter
It is the little achievements day in and day out that build up our capacity to be successful. This is why little achievements matter. In this sense, …
A DSM-5 Definition of Avoidant Personality Disorder
Avoidant Personality Disorder (APD) is in the newest American diagnostic manual (DSM-5) characterized by impairments in two domains of personality functioning: self and interpersonal functioning.
Three Principles to Help You Develop Self-Compassion
Self-compassion involves acknowledging that suffering and failure are a part of the human condition, and that all people are worthy of compassion. The concept of …