Since the 1970s, scientists have employed the mirror test as an assay of self-awareness. If an animal or child recognizes themselves in a mirror — for instance, touching a mark placed on their ...

Now a fish species has passed the mirror test for the first time, which may suggest that the animals are smarter than we give them credit for.

Either fish are self-aware or scientists need to rethink how they study animal cognition.

The mirror test is a common, but contested, test of self-awareness. It was introduced by the psychologist Gordon Gallup in 1970.

To test self-awareness, scientists often use the so-called mirror test. In this test, animals get a mark on their body that they can only see when looking in a mirror.

Biology A Fish Just Passed a Mirror Test for Self-Awareness, but What Does That Mean? Fish introduced to a mirror began to act strangely, swimming upside-down or spreading their fins.

Whether it means the cleaner wrasse is self-aware — or that this is a really bad test of self-awareness — is now up for debate. A cleaner wrasse gazes at itself in the mirror.

It’s nothing to get too excited or alarmed about, but a robot has passed a modified version of the classic King’s Wise Men Test. It’s another classic case of simulation rather than emulation ...

Many companies' training or development programs include some sort of self-assessment designed to increase self-awareness, but in practice self-evaluations typically have a very low correlation to ...

As individuals, businesses and a society, the single greatest investment we can make in our future is in raising awareness around the importance of improving our self-awareness.