Nothing Personal: What Psychologists Get Wrong about Identity

Publication date: Available online 1 May 2018
Source:Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Author(s): Christina Starmans, Paul Bloom
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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