Emerson College

Self-Perceptions on Social Media vs. Offline Contrast With Those Perceived in Generalized but Not Close Others

Self-perception varies across contexts. Do perceptions of others across contexts vary in the same way? Here, a multi-study mapping of context-framed person perception addressed this question. Participants (N = 1748) reported perceptions of the Big Five personality traits specifyi...

The Relativity of the Individual Mind

For roughly a century, the dominant account of selfhood in psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences has held that the individual self is derivative of the social and narrative field — constituted by it, and possessing no independent standing. This paper does not dispute th...

The Relativity of the Individual Mind

For roughly a century, the dominant account of selfhood in psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences has held that the individual self is derivative of the social and narrative field — constituted by it, and possessing no independent standing. This paper does not dispute th...

The Relativity of the Individual Mind

For roughly a century, the dominant account of selfhood in psychology, philosophy, and the social sciences has held that the individual self is derivative of the social and narrative field — constituted by it, and possessing no independent standing. This paper does not dispute th...