Technology is breaking our concept of the self. It could help us heal the mind Virtual reality is digging up age-old questions about who we are. That has profound implications for neuroscience ...

The data obtained indicated that physical self-concept is related in a positive manner with the psychological well-being of the individual and in a negative manner to psychological unwellness, in ...

The findings suggest that this tie between our psychological and physical sense of self is involved in memory function: when our mental self-concept doesn't match our physical self, our memory can ...

The combination of physical and mental illness had a negative impact on self-perception among older adolescents, but not for younger ones, shows a new University of Waterloo study.

With that kind of physical self-concept, a chimp could use a mirror as a tool to examine or groom its body, he says, but that wouldn't indicate anything about the richness of the animal's inner life.

Hager and Leadbeater wrote that relational and physical bullying were linked to increased physical symptoms and decreased physical self-concept.

Conclusion: Overweight children have poorer self-perception of their physical competences but do not perceive themselves to be less strong, healthy or physically active than normal weight children.

When you have an inaccurate or negative self-concept or when you have no notion of who you really are, you will experience the following feelings and behaviors.

Philosophers and psychologists have long puzzled over our conception of the self and whether we believe it to have physical correlates in the body. It’s hard to get empirical data on a concept ...

There are various elements of our sense of self. Part of the way we understand ourselves is by recognizing our physical body and how it moves through space in a process called proprioception.