This Is Who I Want to Be! Exploring Possible Selves by Interviewing Women in Science

Identity and schizophrenia: Who do I want to be?

Many individuals with schizophrenia have occasional difficulty defining both to themselves and to others who they truly are. Perhaps for this reason they make attempts to change core aspects of themselves. These attempts may be delusional, but are too often unjustly dismissed as delusional before the potential value of the change is considered. Instead of facilitation, obstacles are placed in t...

P-40: "I Want to Bring God in": ReligiousWomen

This I believe in genetics: discovery can be a nuisance, replication is science, implementation matters

For several years now, accumulation of genetic information has accelerated at a pace that exceeds the acceleration of computer capacity (Moore’s law) and there is no discernible limit to prospects of further growth. As the cost per unit of obtained genetic information is plummeting (Niedringhaus et al., 2011), genetics has become a frontrunner and a catalyst of the informatics revolution that i...

Possible Selves

The concept of possible selves is introduced to complement current conceptions of self-knowledge. Possible selves represent individuals' ideas of what they might become, what they would like to become, and what they are afraid of becoming, and thus provide a conceptual link between cognition and motivation. Possible selves are the cognitive components of hopes, fears, goals, and threats, and th...

Who do you want to be when you grow up?