Category: PERSONAL IDENTITY
America’s Love Affair With Plastic Surgery
Personal identity and self-esteem are linked. Especially when it comes to our physical appearance in a society that is obsessed with looking young. I [...]
Tattoos Were Once for Rebels. Have They Gone Too Mainstream?
So how do you stand out and display your identity in a world that rewards the cookie-cutter and the ubiquitous approach to life? And just how original [...]

What Might Explain the Unhappiness Epidemic?
What might explain the unhappiness epidemic?
Although measures of teen and adult happiness dropped during the high unemployment rates of the Great Re [...]

Simple Blood Test Could Read People’s Internal Clock
The circadian rhythm is present in every single cell of your body, guided by the central clock that resides in the brain.
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The Importance of Personal Identity
This column is the first in a series of three designed to assist you in discovering and strengthening your own personal and more accurate self-concept [...]

Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade and the Dangers of Envying ‘Perfect’ Lives
Bourdain’s suicide, which followed shortly after that of fashion designer Kate Spade, was a one-two punch to our belief that there are some people who [...]

Calling on Past Lives to Solve the Problems of the Present
Alison Le sees a little boy running down a cobblestone street lined with brick buildings. She somehow knows he gets into trouble a lot. He’s lonely. H [...]

Meghan Markle Is ‘Changing Discussions About What It Means to Be Biracial in America’
Meghan Markle didn’t just become the Duchess of Sussex on Saturday when she married Prince Harry in a gorgeous ceremony at St. George’s Church in Wind [...]

Be MultiDentity! Lessons In Owning You, Be Yourself
Be MultiDentity Lesson 1 - Be Yourself
This task is not as simple as it seems. To be yourself in a world in which everyone else is constantly tryin [...]

Why it’s So Hard for Doctors to Understand Your Pain
Every patient is different.
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Karen Sibert, University of California, Los Angeles
We’re all human beings, but we’re no [...]