Growing up, "Sticks and stones can break your bones, but words will never hurt me" was a common phrase to get over bullying ...

THE BASICS Understanding Attention Take our ADHD Test Find counselling to help with ADHD First, let’s be realistic: We’re all self-centered to some degree, and to a certain extent, we should be.

but I think one major piece I have been neglecting to broach is that of self-centered fear. Self-worth and fear of what others think about us go hand-in-hand. When we are struggling with our ...

The absent-minded professor was some other guy. Philosophers might say that in these rare minutes, my “I-self” (the seer of things around me) and “me-self” (the one seen) were mentally ...

The researchers conducted this study to challenge the conventional thinking that self-centered individuals use social media as a tool for self-promotion. Previous theories, such as self-construal ...

You have some recent accomplishments that you would really like to share, but you worry about coming across as a self-centered braggart. On the other hand, you don’t want to let this opportunity ...

Well, not necessarily. For his book “Give and Take,” the organizational psychologist Adam Grant identified other-centered people in organizations (the givers) and self-centered people ...