Autonomy is the ability to make choices yourself rather than having them made for you by other people. Most of us desire autonomy—who wants to be a slave to another's wishes? But we are certainly not ...

What's it like having ADHD when you are 11 years old and are expected to get on with your schoolwork just like everyone else?

A recent paper by Wallace and McIntyre, published in the October issue of Journal of Theoretical Social Psychology, suggests social autonomy can have negative consequences. Specifically, “social ...

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 ...