Adolescents are in the developmental stage of transition from childhood to adulthood, a stage during which they claim certain identities in favor of others and the resultant configuration of possible selves (Erikson, 1968, 1980; Marcia, 1966, 1980). The longterm studies of the Monitoring the Future (MTF) and the national Youth Risk Behavior Survey have reported that adolescent alcohol use is th...

The literature on social class disparities in health and education contains 2 underlying, yet often opposed, models of behavior: the individual model and the structural model. These models refer to largely unacknowledged assumptions about the sources of human behavior that are foundational to research and interventions. Our review and theoretical integration proposes that, in contrast to how th...

This paper seeks to make a theoretical and empirical case for the importance of differentiated identities for group function. Research on groups has found that groups sometimes perform better and other times perform worse than the sum of their individual members. Differentiation of selves is a crucial moderator. We propose a heuristic framework that divides formation of work or task groups into...

This book marks the beginning of a new phase in the philosophical investigation of classical and contemporary accounts of the self: canonical boundaries have been crossed and doctrinal justification abandoned in favor of a cosmopolitan ideal of syncretic, theoretically perspicuous, and historically informed systematic reflection. That such reflection bears on so central a concept as the self is...

Abstract This paper engages with the relationship between story ownership – so who owns a story, tellership has right to tell it, and functions of workplace narratives as well broader social practices at work. Drawing upon discourse narrative analyses, investigates specifically how negotiation meaning visible in often incomplete fragmented but naturally-occurring points discursive struggle over...

The study of culture and self casts psychology's understanding of the self, identity, or agency as central to the analysis and interpretation of behavior and demonstrates that cultures and selves define and build upon each other in an ongoing cycle of mutual constitution. In a selective review of theoretical and empirical work, we define self and what the self does, define culture and how it co...

Ken Himma argues that a human being becomes a moral person at the commencement of brain activity. In response to Himma, the author offers (1) brief comments on Himma's project, (2) an alternative account of the human person that maintains that a human being is a human person by nature as long as it exists, and (3) a counterexample to Himma's position that shows it cannot account for the wrongne...