Do you want to love how you look but always compare yourself with others? There are plenty of ways to overcome this, from life drawing to CBT to social media detoxes
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Do you want to love how you look but always compare yourself with others? There are plenty of ways to overcome this, from life drawing to CBT to social media detoxes
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Some of us seem to have an over-inflated belief in our abilities. Why are we resistant to the idea we might not be good at something?
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Can ‘confidence-whisperer’ Nate Zinsser help Jamie Waters boost his wavering self-belief?
The study was published on November 4 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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Some Asian women are learning new skills to protect themselves, bolstering their sense of agency, confidence and competence on the street.
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From Shakespeare to The Secret, the idea that our thoughts and perceptions shape our reality is recognized as a powerful truth. As the Bard wrote, “[T]here is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
While charlatans have long used this belief to promote bogus cancer cures and get-rich-quick schemes, psychologists are now actually beginning to understand how “faking it ’til you make it” — or alternatively, psyching yourself out with negative thinking — works in the social world. Two fascinating recent studies — one on confidence; the other exploring social fears — reveal how our own positive and negative stances work to alter our relationships and careers.