Learn what self-awareness is, the signs you're self-aware, and how this skill affects your health. Plus, explore strategies on how to become more self-aware.

Self-Reflective Awareness (SRA) is probably the single most important competency that we teach in the doctoral program in professional psychology that I direct. It is listed first in the program’s ...

Consciousness evolved in stages, starting with basic survival responses like pain and alarm, then expanding into focused awareness and self-reflection. These layers help organisms avoid danger, learn ...

There are artists who never consider themselves done growing. Some books are never finished, but authors continue to outline and edit. But what about ourselves? Can we consciously "build" on who we ...

Let’s time travel for a moment back to say, the year 1100. We’re sitting at our wooden bench with our goose quill composing a list of traits we deem to be indisputably good in a friend, lover, ...

Self-awareness is the first step for personal growth. To know ourselves allows us to take the reins of our life. Self-awareness helps you see yourself clearly — it illuminates your blind spots so you ...

Dr. Matt Poepsel is a VP at The Predictive Index, author of Expand the Circle, and host of Lead the People. Even the most self-aware leaders have knowledge gaps. I've watched brilliant executives miss ...

Wild baboons failed to demonstrate visual self-recognition in a test carried out by anthropologists. Published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the study found that while the baboons ...

It was the first time a controlled laser mark test has been done on these animals in a wild setting and strengthens the evidence from other studies that monkeys don’t recognise their own reflection.