Recent empirical and theoretical developments suggest that endorsement of conspiracy theories can arise from the frustration social motives. Taking this further, current review integrates theorising on processes relating to three selves—the individual, relational, collective self outlines their associations with beliefs. In doing so, we argue motives pertaining individual (e.g., narcissism, nee...

This research examined how and when people engage in upward self-revision to embrace new possible selves in response to social validation. First, the present study (n1⁄4 67) predicted and found that upward self-revision was more likely to occur when validations fully specify the meaning of the positive discrepancy between the desired self and the alternative self into the explicit prospect of t...

In this response to Helga Varden’s Sex, Love, and Gender: A Kantian Theory, I challenge characterization ofpostmodern approaches sexual orientation identity, arguing that it is mistaken assume an opposition between socialconstructionism reality, or social constructionism experience of deep-seated identity. also question whether, onceone takes into account the effects hegemonic heterosexuality, ...

In “Of Personal Identity”, Hume attempts to understand why we ordinarily believe in persistent selves. He proposes that this ontological commitment depends on illusions and fictions: the imagination tricks us into supposing an unchanging core self remains static through flux change of experience. Recent work cognitive science provides a good deal support for Hume’s hypothesis common beliefs abo...

Abstract Are we made up entirely and without residue of the data that defines us, or is there a disjunction between our shadows embodied selves? How do come to recognize ourselves, selves, in pronouns interpellate us online, what it exactly recognize? What does mean occupy semantic positional space pronoun ‘you’? And continuity discontinuity systems surveillance aggregation address don’t? The m...

The three-dimensional models used to embody intelligent agents are becoming increasingly realistic. We discuss two studies in which we embodied intelligently behaving virtual agents with photographically realistic models of human subjects' heads and faces. We then immersed those subjects with agents embodied with their virtual selves and compared their interactions and nonverbal behaviors to se...

This article presents an instrument and data testing a theory of the Moral Construct of Caring in Nursing as Communicative Action. Pilot testing involved 185 items administered to 82 nurses in 3 countries. The instrument includes 7 subscales addressing the nurse's personal and professional selves, the patient's personal and illness selves, the bidirectional interaction, the moral maturity of bo...