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Nothing Personal: What Psychologists Get Wrong about Identity

2018; Elsevier BV; Volume: 22; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.tics.2018.04.002

1879-307X

Christina Starmans, Paul Bloom,

Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

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.