What shapes our self-esteem? Our self-views, or others' opinions? Brain scans show how low self-esteem is wired in the brain.

“Type B” was proposed as the more easygoing, tolerant personality, in contrast to Type A. More recently, the concept of “Type D” (for “distressed”) personality has been studied by ...

Here’s why your personality can often define that fine line between health and illness. The “HEXACO” model of personality is a six-dimensional framework for understanding human personality.

The fundamental tenets of strategic philanthropy are that funders and their grantees should have clear goals, strategies based on sound theories of change, and robust methods for assessing progress ...

A new theory, that explains how light and matter interact at the quantum level has enabled researchers to define for the first time the precise shape of a single photon. A new theory, that ...

Attachment styles—secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized—impact relationship dynamics. Attachment theory informs therapy, parenting, and education but faces cultural and stability-related ...

Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been proven right on the largest scale yet. An analysis of millions of galaxies shows that the way they have evolved and clustered over ...

Max Weber, a German sociologist, argued that bureaucracy was the most efficient model for private businesses and public offices. His theories influenced generations of business leaders and politicians ...