The researchers have found that encouraging conversations may have the opposite effect as they produce a negative influence on the emotional state of a person and his/her self-esteem. Full story

The psychologists claim that excessive self-confidence is vitally important. Moreover, it is needed in all spheres of life: at work, in private life, and in sports. Full story

It turns out that ladies see themselves as lower, fatter, and in general - less sympathetic than they really are. Researchers discovered this from a simple experiment, in which voluntary participants were tested on the ability to tell distance by looking. Full story

European psychologists revealed that self-esteem depends on the age. The full study appeared in the Italian psychological journal Psicologia E Salute. Full story

Researchers at the University of Texas, USA, have discovered that inflated self-esteem is associated with the insufficient activity of frontal lobes of the brain while healthy self-esteem is linked to higher activity in this brain area. Full story

Sexy women appearing in glossy magazines make men unhappy, according to scientists from the University of Missouri, US. It would seem that men should get esthetic pleasure viewing beautiful female bodies. Yet, after scientists interviewed a large group of the representatives of sterner sex, they found that those who like to flip over glossy magazines have lower self-esteem than their peers who are indifferent to glossy print reading. Full story