It's great if you think that your beliefs and values define you -- if your actions show it. What happens is that sometimes your words and actions take different paths, and in the end you have nothing more than...
Adolescence is the period from the beginning of puberty (13 or 14 years old) to age 18. People usually think of it as a difficult stage, but many people go through adolescence without any problems. Still, it's important to...
I'm tired of being the last person I take care of. It's exhausting being there for everyone else, but never for myself. I'm always afraid I'm bothering people if I tell them something they don't want to hear. But...
What does it mean to be a leader? One of the questions social psychology wants an answer to is why people follow them. In the classic study of leadership, people look for characteristics that leaders have in common. But there's too...
The psychologist William James once said "If we remembered everything, we would be as ill as if we did not remember anything." Memory at a general level works selectively. It doesn't remember all the information in the same way,...
Social identity is the degree to which we identify with a certain group. It is the measure of how important a group is to us. The more we identify with the group, the more this group will define our personality....
We can explain the birth of the ego through the process of maturation and learning. It happens through the acquisition of our sensory and motor skills. The birth and development of our ego is noteworthy because it is the...
The book Women who Run with the Wolves has some profound things to say about the primordial feminine instinct that many have forgotten. It is a fabulous text that invites us to reinterpret the experience of women through folk tales, art,...
That voice in your head that guides you and responds when you ask who you are... is called your ego. But, do you know what it really is? Your ego is the product of the emotions, thoughts and memories you've accumulated...
It's like people with hyper-empathy syndrome have long antennas that pick up on every emotion vibrating around them. But they end up losing themselves in other people's needs and poisoning themselves with too much compassion, even feeling guilty for the...