You are watching yourself fail to stop caring about being watched. This advice also misunderstands the source of the prob ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about relationships, personality, and everyday psychology. Distorted perceptions of relationships can be dangerous for ...

In 2014, I wrote an post on “How Distorted Thinking Increases Stress and Anxiety.” It covered the 10 most common cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions are errors in thinking. They’re easy to ...

We all experience a continuous flow of fleeting, evaluative thoughts or images throughout the day. These are called automatic thoughts, and they tend not to be deliberate but to emerge spontaneously.