In a world that increasingly champions personal freedom and self-actualisation, the idea of individualism has become aspirational — an empowering framework that allows people to focus on emotional ...

Happiness and well-being depend on how much volition, choice and control people feel they have over their life—their sense of autonomy. Researchers have acknowledged this connection, but there's been ...

Almost half a century after the “Me Generation” made headlines with its focus on the self, individualism is well on the way to becoming one of the central themes of the 21st century. Baby boomers did ...

The mirror, diary, memoir, autobiography, portrait, love letter and even the fork represent practical manifestations of one of the most fundamental developments in Western culture: the growth of ...