Reviewed by Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOSReviewed by Rachel Goldman, PhD, FTOS Self-concept is the image we have of ourselves. It is influenced by many forces, including our interaction with the important ...

A new longitudinal study looked at how youths' self-concepts are linked to their actual academic achievement in math and reading from middle childhood to adolescence. The study found that students' ...

This thing we call self-esteem affects the way we view ourselves and the world around us. It factors into the school curriculum, discipline practices, sports development, and even office management.

During the elementary-school years, a child's world expands dramatically to include not only their family and playmates but a widening circle of schoolmates and adults. In this enlarged environment, ...

"[F]or a living creature to have evolved rich capabilities of perception and categorization but to be constitutionally incapable of focusing any of that apparatus onto itself would be highly anomalous ...

Who’s that? Understanding it’s them in the mirror offers toddlers another sense of perspective. Goami/Shutterstock From the moment they are born, babies are exposed to information that can teach them ...