Self-sabotage often emerges in moments of high stress or emotional threat. When people feel overwhelmed, anxious, or ...

"Do people always want to know precisely who they are and exactly what they are capable of accomplishing at their best? We doubt it . . ." The opening quote is taken from a study published by Edward ...

Do you have a tendency to quit when obstacles present themselves? Do you make a lot of excuses for not succeeding? Do you seem to get in your own way? If this sounds like you, then you may be engaging ...

The New York Times takes a revealing look at self-handicapping excuses—like "I barely slept the night before the test"—and why we create them, as well as the extremely unlikely chance that anyone else ...

In contrast to measures of explicit self-esteem, which assess introspectively accessible self-evaluations, measures of implicit self-esteem assess the valence of unconscious, introspectively ...

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- A study by psychological researchers at Indiana University shows that people are more likely to undermine their performance at stressful tasks when they're operating at "peak ...

Have you ever been so stressed about an exam that you ended up sabotaging yourself? Psychologists use the term "self-handicapping" to refer to actions that we take in order to purposely mess ourselves ...