A self-fulfilling prophecy is when a person's predictions come true due to how their own beliefs have influenced the outcome. Learn more.

Positive self-talk is an internal dialogue that helps a person feel optimistic and good about themselves. Read about its benefits, uses, and more.

Self-affirmation theory can help increase self-worth and motivation. Learn more about how you can incorporate the practice into your daily life.

According to Mattingly, Lewandowski, and McIntyre, our relationships can change our self-concepts in two ways: 4 First, the size of your self-concept can change.

Use positive self-talk to reinforce these goals by reminding yourself of your capabilities and the steps needed to achieve ...

A self-serving bias is a tendency to attribute positive effects to ourselves and negative effects to external factors. Remember that time you credited your baking skills for those delicious ...

In other words, they are examples of when nations decided to cooperate with each other for self-interested reasons, yet still produced results that benefitted the rest of humanity.

Therapist Kati Morton walks us through how to start implementing positive self-talk into our daily lives using bridge statements.

As we become increasingly committed to our partners, we find our self-concept changing. How does it change, and are these changes good or bad for us and for our relationships?