Barack Obama’s conduct as President baffles us – just as his personality eludes us. Design and purpose seem to be equally lacking even as the man exudes a strong sense of elitist superiority and his ...

Sigmund Freud’s model of the human mind is famous. He divided the psyche into three conflicting components. The superego represents the psychic embodiment of moral principles and norms derived from ...

Tell your sister you’re sorry!” How many parents have said this or a variation of it? This is a parent’s early attempt at ...

In this world in search of a new order, President Trump is America’s current id and, for many on the MAGA right, Elon Musk is their superego. Freud tells us that the id acts on impulse, while the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark Travers writes about the world of psychology. A new study published in the Journal of Research in Personality explores the ...

The term ego is as confusing as any in psychology. Not only is the word itself used to refer to several distinct psychological constructs and processes, but the psychological landscape is littered ...

When you look at Batman with a coldly analytical eye — and he's hard to avoid these days, with The Dark Knight Rises set to come out Friday — a few things stand out as potential red flags: the secrecy ...