A self-fulfilling prophecy is when a person's predictions come true due to how their own beliefs have influenced the outcome. Learn more.

For example, an athlete might view their athleticism to be of central importance to their self-concept, even though they also enjoy cooking and are part of a big family.

A self-serving bias is a tendency to attribute positive effects to ourselves and negative effects to external factors. Remember that time you credited your baking skills for those delicious ...

Self-concept, like other psychological impressions, is relativistic and depends on some frame of reference. In educational settings, for example, the other students in the same classroom serve as one ...

The relations of maternal reminiscing style and child self-concept to children's shared and independent autobiographical memories were examined in a sample of 189 three-year-olds and their mothers ...