Social Media Naming as Part of Teenager Constructed Identity

Composition as Identity: Part 1

Many of us think that ordinary objects – such as tables and chairs – exist. We also think that ordinary objects have parts: my chair has a seat and some legs as parts, for example. But once we are committed to the (seemingly innocuous) thesis that ordinary objects are composed of parts, we then open ourselves up to a whole host of philosophical problems, most of which center on what exactly the...

Racial Identity, media use, and the social construction of risk

Identity Perception of Computers as Social Actors

Social identity as social glue: the origins of group loyalty.

In 3 experiments, the authors investigated the role of social identity in fostering group loyalty, defined as staying when members can obtain better outcomes by leaving their group. In Experiment 1, high (vs. low) identifiers expressed a stronger desire to stay in the group in the presence of an attractive (vs. unattractive) exit option. Experiments 2 and 3 replicated this basic finding and tes...

Naming and Identity in Epistemic Logics Part I: The Propositional Case

Modal epistemic logics for many agents often assume a xed one-to-one correspondence between agents and the names for agents that occur in the language. This assumption restricts the applicability of any logic because it prohibits, for instance, anonymous agents, agents with many names, named groups of agents, and relative (indexical) reference. Here we examine the principles involved in such ca...