Excessive first person "self-talk" can increase egocentric bias. That said, using "non-first-person" pronouns and your own name has been found to promote healthy self-distancing.

In recent years, pronouns have become grammar’s unexpected heroes and villains. How a person uses third-person pronouns such as “he,” “she,” “they,” and “zir”—both about others ...

We may not all do it out loud, but most of us have some way of addressing ourselves when it comes to self-critiquing. If you want to give yourself better feedback, you may be best off speaking to ...

Third person When you are writing in the third person, the story is about other people. Not yourself or the reader. Use the character's name or pronouns such as 'he' or 'she'.

In a letter with the heading "Missing ‘persons,'" Anne-Marie Miller of Clemmons wrote: "In the July 4 Winston-Salem Journal editorial titled ‘Happy Birthday, America' the first sentence begins ...

And in transcripts of 11,699 phone conversations recorded in 2003, 66 percent of the third-person pronouns used by men, and 60 percent of those used by women, are masculine (“he”, “him ...

Using gutsy third person self-talk (inside your head or in a hushed tone) is something you can do anytime and anywhere to increase healthy self-distancing while optimizing your parasympathetic ...