Self-esteem plays a key role in cooperation through sensitivity to unfairness. Cooperation is essential for today’s society. Individuals cooperate when they pay personal costs to help collective interests. However, it is not obvious that individuals will cooperate in all circumstances, because collective interests do not...
Self-esteem is essential to wellbeing, but where does it come from? Debates over the advances of self-esteem have lasted for decades, both in the scientific literature and in the popular media (Orth & Robins, 2022, p. 5). Several researchers and laypeople have argued that greater...
Those with low self-esteem are likely to be the victims of bullying, but does low self-esteem cause others to bully? Bullying perpetration and victimization circumstances occur over the course of adolescence and are a worldwide concern. Determining the affecting factors and impacts of bullying and...
Unsurprisingly, war is stressful—even media about war can negatively affect our mental health. It also changes how we look at others. Exposure to war is a traumatic experience that has lasting effects on those involved. Military conflicts are associated with the loss of human lives,...