Social media users face a tension between presenting themselves in an idealized or authentic way. Here, we explore how prioritizing one over the other impacts users’ well-being. We estimate the degree ...

Americans’ attitudes about self-expression, morality, individuality, and religious practice continue to vary widely across generations. There also continue to be significant differences between men ...

Every child yearns to be listened to, heard, and understood. At the same time, however, a child doesn’t have the cognitive or psychological tools they need to make sense of their own painful or ...

“Self-actualization” represents a concept derived from humanistic psychological theory and, specifically, from the theory created by Abraham Maslow. Self-actualization, according to Maslow, represents ...

Makeup can often be written off as a mask — it's frivolous, vain, or a phony impression of who you really are. But anyone who owns even one tube of lipstick knows that's not always true. Makeup, like ...