Rebecca Flood is Newsweek's Audience Editor for Life & Trends, and joined in 2021 as a senior reporter. Rebecca specializes in lifestyle and viral trends, extensively covering social media ...

I wake up in the morning and look in the mirror. I shower and do my hair and makeup in front of a vanity mirror, then get dressed with the help of my full-length mirror. I have three mirrors in my ...

Your current habits reflect your future success. Whether you realize it or not, the small things you do every day are ...

It's a well known fact that only a few species can recognize themselves in a mirror, with humans becoming self-aware around a year to 18-months-old. Other animals displaying this skill include ...

So many of our habits, patterns of behavior, and pre-set programming are buried in our subconscious. They operate in a sort of “control room”, directing how we think, feel, and act, often times ...

What are nonhumans reflecting about when they see their own reflections? What do they know about themselves? "...in light of Darwin’s principle of evolutionary continuity, we urge abandonment of the ...

Suki's mirror phase is precious, but it will end eventually. Though it's mostly a case of waiting it out, there are some ...

Daniel Povinelli was in high school when he first read about a clever experiment, published in 1970, that showed chimpanzees—but not monkeys--can recognize themselves in mirrors. "I bought into the ...

Rachel Druckenmiller didn't mean to fall in love with benefits. But as so many industry leaders before her, she did — on accident. "No 10-year-old has ever said, 'When I grow up, I want to be an ...

Researchers report that mice display behavior that resembles self-recognition when they see themselves in the mirror. When the researchers marked the foreheads of black-furred mice with a spot of ...

Daniel Povinelli was in high school when he first read about a clever experiment, published in 1970, that showed chimpanzees—but not monkeys--can recognize themselves in mirrors. "I bought into the ...

A study published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, found that while the baboons noticed and responded to a laser mark shining on their arms, legs and hands, they did not react when they saw, via ...