What shapes our self-esteem? Our self-views, or others' opinions? Brain scans show how low self-esteem is wired in the brain.

Attachment styles—secure, avoidant, ambivalent, and disorganized—impact relationship dynamics. Attachment theory informs therapy, parenting, and education but faces cultural and stability-related ...

For decades now, many physicists have pursued the hope that equations involving an especially tiny “string” could provide the theory that solves nature’s ultimate subatomic mysteries.

A new theory, that explains how light and matter interact at the quantum level has enabled researchers to define for the first time the precise shape of a single photon. A new theory, that ...

According to Vygotsky’s social constructivism theory, culture and society have a significant impact on how an individual learns since they are socially mediated processes that affect learning ...

How cells prioritize restoring amino acids when supply is limited is unknown. Here, using budding yeast, the authors build an economic framework to explain prioritization strategies and find that ...

Guided by constructivist theory, which integrates the theories of Piaget, Vygotsky, Bruner, and Jonassen, the CAM can design educational exhibitions and activities. This approach can spark visitors’ ...

Chronic pain is a condition that causes widespread, constant pain and distress and fills both sufferers and the healthcare professionals who treat them with dread. [...] ...

Fact checked by Karen Cilli Constructivism is a theory that posits that humans are meaning-makers in their lives and ...