Scientists set out to determine how people perceive their own spontaneous thoughts and if those thoughts or intuitions have any influence over judgment. They found that spontaneous thoughts are ...

When anxiety strikes, self-awareness can morph into toxic rumination. Here's how it can deepen your crisis instead of helping ...

How useful is it, really, to know thyself? The idea that self-insight is good for us dates all the way back to the inscriptions on ancient Greece’s Temple of Apollo in Delphi. It is still popularly ...

Self-insight may not be as useful as we like to think. Source: Deagreez/iStock How useful is it, really, to know thyself? The idea that self-insight is good for us dates all the way back to the ...

You probably know more than a few people who are just clueless about themselves. They make the same errors over and over but never seem to notice. They think they’re great at stuff that, frankly, they ...

A research team has upended current thinking about areas in the human brain responsible for self-awareness. Using a rare patient with damage to areas considered vital to be self-aware, the team ...

Self-awareness can help, but too much fuels rumination, anxiety, and emotional fatigue. Here is how hyper self-awareness drains joy, complicates relationships, and why learning to step out of your own ...

Self-insight may not be as useful as we like to think. Source: Deagreez/iStock How useful is it, really, to know thyself? The idea that self-insight is good for us dates all the way back to the ...