Do you get stressed out about having to perform in front of others? Then you might be self-conscious. According to those who study self-consciousness, it's human nature to focus on ourselves ...

Worried about what you'd look like after squeezing into last year's bathing suit? Self-consciousness keeps us fighting that battle to control our self-image. But obsessing over our shortcomings ...

Consciousness is a famously hard problem, so Hod Lipson is starting from the basics: with self-aware robots that can help us understand how we think. “I want to meet, in my lifetime, an alien species, ...

Consciousness exists on a continuum. At one end is an organism that has a sense of where it is in the world — some primitive self-awareness. Somewhere beyond that is the ability to imagine where ...

Self-consciousness surrounding exercising in public is common, and it actually gets worse this time of year. Almost half of women (45%) in the UK are worried about showing their body when ...

A simple definition of consciousness is sensory awareness of the body, the self, and the world. The fetus may be aware of the body, for example by perceiving pain. It reacts to touch, smell ...