The current paper investigates the phenomenological aspects of “selves” in relation to autonomous agents. Through a review of a series of neuro-robotics experiments conducted by the author’s group, we elucidate three different aspects of “selves”, namely, minimal selves, social selves and self-referential selves. Upon integrative discussions of these “selves”, it is suggested that genuine const...

Abstract This paper introduces a new account of trust and distrust. The core aim the is to introduce an that places treats what ‘ought’ happen as close conceptual companions. Over course paper, I develop compare it with certain rival accounts.

There is substantial evidence that discrepancies within the self-system produce emotional distress. However, whether specific types of discrepancy are related to different types of negative affect remains contentious. At the heart of self-discrepancy theory (SDT: Higgins, 1987, 1989) is the assumption that different types of discrepancies are related to distinctive emotional states, with discre...

In practicing existential and human advocacy, or engaging in a relational narrative, nurses may assist persons who experience health inequalities to clarify their values, and, in becoming more fully their authentic selves, community members who ordinarily feel powerless in the public space may act with confidence in influencing the distribution of health-care resources. In this paper, the write...

An approach for personality-based self-discrepancy (PBSD) measurement is proposed, whereby self-beliefs and incongruities among their contents are assessed with respect to five-factor model (FFM) semantic dimensions. Selves Questionnaire attributes from 191 college students were coded against L. R. Goldberg's (1990) FFM factor analysis to construct personality scores for actual, ideal, and ough...