We Don't Understand Ourselves

A recent study showed that men overestimate how good-looking they are to women. Women, on the other hand, think they are less attractive to men, which is not the case.

People who think they are highly attractive may incorrectly assume that the other person is sexually intere...

The Fidget Cube and the Gravity Blanket raised millions of dollars because they diagnosed people with a simple problem that exists for every single person: We fidget at times. We have trouble falling asleep.

Now that we are aware that we might have problems, we realize we should take ca...

Our self-perception is completely distorted, according to psychological research. We do not know who we are, something known as ‘introspection illusion’. Further complicating matters is the fact that we do not realize this and think about ourselves as somebody wh...