Cognitive disorders can often impact self-confidence, for the better or for the worse. But we won’t be able to offer adequate treatment unless we understand the mechanisms, one scientist warns.
Racial trauma can cause feelings of isolation among Black people.
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Whether experienced directly or indirectly, racial incidents can trigger numerous psychological impacts on Black people, including lower self-esteem and anxiety.
People want quick fixes, but unfortunately, building healthy, realistic, and stable self-esteem isn’t that simple.
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Composer Nicholas Britell festoons earnest Romantic music with sounds that gleefully desecrate it, underscoring the show’s emotional core: a lust for power joined by immense self-loathing.
If one friend is always the boss, the other friend may suffer.
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Friendships are important, but are they always healthy? New research finds that teens who feel dominated by their friends experience lower self-esteem and more symptoms of anxiety and depression.
Procrastination is an all-too-common problem.
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Understanding the why of procrastination is key to breaking the habit.
Undergraduate students at the University of Nebraska Omaha collaborate on a group assignment for a STEM course.
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Female statistics students had higher final exam grades than their male peers, even though they had less confidence in their statistics abilities at the start of the semester.
Participants of the popular “Di Asa” show in competition.
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Obese persons are regularly associated with laziness and inactivity in Ghanaian society.
From the playground to the workplace, people from immigrant communities in the UK say accent-based racism impacts their daily lives.
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Skin-shade prejudice can have a lasting impact both on people’s self-confidence and on who they in turn find attractive. Understanding how it works is key to resisting it.
Using social media increases our natural tendency to compare ourselves. How does this affect our well-being?
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Comparing ourselves to people who are worse off than we are on social media should make us feel better. The opposite is true.
Exercise spurs the release of the body’s natural cannabinoids, which have myriad benefits for mental health and stress relief.
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A growing body of research points to the body’s natural cannabinoid system as the primary driver behind the runner’s high – and the mental health boost and stress relief following exercise.
Instagram’s emphasis on filtered photos of bodies harms girls’ self-image.
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Ample research demonstrates the harms Instagram causes teen girls, especially around body image. Meta is now facing the consequences of knowingly marketing a harmful service.
Teaching circus arts — from juggling to trapeze — in physical education classes increased children’s physical literacy, resilience and participation, with greater gender equity.
There’s virtually no association between self-esteem and sexual behavior.
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A new study finds that women are just as likely as men to assume something’s wrong with a woman who decides she wants to sleep with a handful of partners.
A group of young men wait on a road for work in South Africa. A staggering 74% of the country’s youth are jobless.
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Relying solely on job placement as an indicator of successful intervention misses out on outcomes that are equally important, or more so, amid high structural unemployment.