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 ...

There’s something undeniably mysterious about mirrors. They hang quietly on our walls, reflecting our faces and rooms, yet they have always been linked to far more than vanity. Across cultures and ...

The importance of positive mirroring in infant development is well established. Most therapists are introduced to developmental mirroring by studying Jacques Lacan, D.W. Winnicott, or Heinz Kohut.

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 ...

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 ...

I need to be honest about something. Before I decided to shave my head, a portion of my prework day (and even my routine when going out socially) was spent staring at the mirror. I would not say the ...