“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 ...

This is because explicit and implicit self-esteem are derived from explicit and implicit self-appraisal and self view; these are two different processes. Explicit self appraisal is a cognitive ability ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...