Day: 28 December 2001

People with high self-esteem may be more of a threat to society than those with a lower sense of sel

Occasionally a new piece of research demolishes a myth with one fell blow. It does not happen often (social research tends to run along familiar tracks), but once in a while an iconoclastic study changes ideas. No one reading Self-Esteem – The Costs and Causes of Low Self-Worth by Professor Nicholas Emler of the LSE, […]