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...float from store to store where I try on tight-fitting jeans and pick up garments I can’t afford. Eventually I make the mistake of going in to Abercrombie. The nearly naked models with their chiseled bodies emasculate me and I can hear my self-esteem falling. The price tags at J. Crew and Banana remind me I still have to buy things on sale. The bumpy ride back to Harvard on the crowded bus gives me a headache...
...It’s been a huge crush to my self esteem. The shortest guy is like six inches taller than me, and one of the guys is like 6’8.” Davies, who stands at 6’4, has felt more at ease...
...Anchor ’00, Head Teaching Fellow for Psychology 1504: Positive Psychology and Literature and ArtsA-18: Fairy Tales, Children’s Literature, and the Construction of Childhood, sees possible uses for the Theory. Anchor says, “The Ladder Theory does wonders for the self-esteem of female footstools and ‘nice guys who think they should be getting more play’ everywhere by reminding them that looks and money, not just their personality, are to blame. It is rumored to be the homepage for the Yale Marching Band, all the members...
...they anxious and depressed? They're more likely to have poor self-esteem, which is not a surprise because a lot of the messages consumer culture sends them are that you're nobody if you don't have the right tennis shoes or you're not drinking the right soft drink. Life isn't fun unless you're eating candy. Your parents are nerds. Your teachers are nerds. School is a bore...
...rate no differently on personal-adjustment scales. Some early entrants to college find freshman year difficult, but by the end of that year, they score virtually the same as older classmates do on psychological inventories. Some researchers have found a little-fish-big-pond effect on the self-esteem of kids who are moved into classes with intellectual equals for the first time. But the effect is usually small and temporary (and, some speculate, healthy for the often outsize egos of highly talented students...