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Starmans C, Bloom P. Nothing Personal: What Psychologists Get Wrong about Identity. Trends Cogn Sci. 2018;22(7):566-568doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.04.002.
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Starmans, Christina, and Bloom, Paul. "Nothing Personal: What Psychologists Get Wrong about Identity." Trends in cognitive sciences vol. 22,7 (2018): 566-568. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2018.04.002
Starmans C, Bloom P. Nothing Personal: What Psychologists Get Wrong about Identity. Trends Cogn Sci. 2018 Jul;22(7):566-568. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.04.002. Epub 2018 May 01. PMID: 29728314.
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Trends Cogn Sci. 2018 Jul;22(7):566-568. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.04.002. Epub 2018 May 01.

Nothing Personal: What Psychologists Get Wrong about Identity.

Trends in cognitive sciences

Christina Starmans, Paul Bloom

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: [email protected].
  2. Department of Psychology,Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

PMID: 29728314 DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2018.04.002

Abstract

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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Keywords: Personal identity; moral self; self; similarity

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