However, as Science of Us points out, Little warns us to be careful about what we ascribe to our biogenic selves; genes don't necessarily entirely explain or excuse someone's behavior or feelings. For ...

Most of us believe in the necessary fiction of a unified self, while at the same time knowing that we consist of different selves. Sometimes we experience our different selves very directly – with an ...

This peculiar inner monologue will be familiar to anyone who has ever saved money for retirement, cheated on a diet, or made any other choice that pits present gratification against future happiness.

Our future selves are strangers to us. This isn’t some poetic metaphor; it’s a neurological fact. FMRI studies suggest that when you imagine your future self, your brain does something weird: It stops ...

Nick is a polished, intelligent, and well-spoken guy; but when he got up to make a presentation at work recently, someone else seemed to have stepped into his skin. "I couldn't string two words ...