A self-fulfilling prophecy is when a person’s expectations about a situation come true due to changes in their own behavior. It is a psychological phenomenon that can play a role in mental health.

Normal age-related changes in how we think, perceive and reason may increase the risk of older people viewing themselves through a negative and ageist lens, research suggests. The study led by ...

A self-management team is a group of workers assigned to perform a specific job for a company. Instead of loosely connected workers performing separate tasks, a self management team performs a defined ...

People write for many different reasons — communicating, expressing their feelings, recording events, venting, and improving their creative craft. Some people also use writing for self-discovery, and ...

Psychological self-help and how-to information is everywhere—in blogs, articles, podcasts, radio shows, books, and magazine articles. Self-help is a big business. The quick-fix, how-to-do-it approach ...

As a graduating doctoral candidate, I find myself facing many transitions ahead. At times like these, we often use a book metaphor: The Stanford chapter is coming to a close, and a new chapter is ...

Positive self-talk is an internal dialogue that makes a person feel good about themselves. A person can use positive self-talk to think optimistically and feel motivated. Identifying negative ...

A recent paper in Current Opinion in Psychology by Thielmann and Burghart explores the limits of self-knowledge, why it matters, and how we can strengthen self-awareness. In this article, I discuss ...

Self-evaluation is a necessary component of being successful — both in the corporate, professional sense and in terms of personal growth. All employees have to fill out a performance evaluation at ...