Nothing Personal: What Psychologists Get Wrong about Identity

What makes someone the same person over time? There is a growing body of research exploring how people ordinarily think about personal identity. We argue here that many of the experiments in this domain fail to properly distinguish similarity from personal identity, and therefore certain conclusions...

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Published inTrends in cognitive sciences Vol. 22; no. 7; pp. 566 - 568
Main Authors Starmans, Christina, Bloom, Paul
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Ltd 01.07.2018
Subjects
moral self
Personal identity
self
similarity
Personal identity
self
similarity
moral self
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Summary:What makes someone the same person over time? There is a growing body of research exploring how people ordinarily think about personal identity. We argue here that many of the experiments in this domain fail to properly distinguish similarity from personal identity, and therefore certain conclusions regarding commonsense intuitions about identity are not supported.
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ISSN:1364-6613
1879-307X
DOI:10.1016/j.tics.2018.04.002