Makenzie Schroeder and Lissa Behm-Morawitz at the University of Missouri recently released a study about how using social media filters to change one’s appearance can lead to a phenomenon called ...

Teens are entering the chat around social media. Adults often stress about the anxiety, self-esteem issues and social comparisons that teenagers may encounter on social media, but a new study is ...

The present research examined the influence of peer characteristics on children's reactions to upward social comparisons. In Experiment 1, one hundred twenty-six 5-, 8-, and 10-year-olds were told ...

There is debate about the abstractness of young children's self-concepts—specifically, whether they include representations of (a) general traits and abilities and (b) the global self. Four studies (N ...

Our self-concept is the image we have of our bodies, capabilities, impressions, etc. (Bailey, 2003). It includes: The material self. Our body, possessions, and other things in our lives. The ...

What is self-esteem? Is it something related to how you evaluate yourself, or is it based on how others think about you? Well, there are numerous theories of self-esteem in psychological science, as ...

Have you ever felt exhilarated about hitting a professional or personal milestone, only to find yourself, less than 24 hours later, having an Instagram-triggered crisis and tumbling down a black hole ...