Current public discourse calls for America to act more interdependently in the world or act more like a conjoint agent. America and American selves, however, are typically associated acting independently or disjoint agency. Since nation is a significant sociocultural source of self, the authors examine what happens to American selves if America is instead associated with conjoint agency. Study ...

Krista Thomason’s Naked: The Dark Side of Shame and Moral Life (Thomason, 2018), develops a novel account shame – one that advances our understanding the emotion its moral significance. O...

Black Like Me? A Narrative Study of Non-Anglophone Black U.S. Immigrant Selves in the Making

Derek Parfit claims that, at certain times and places, the metaphysical units he labels “selves” may be thought of as the morally significant units (i.e., the objects of moral concern) for such things as resource distribution, moral responsibility, commitments, etc. But his concept of the self is problematic in important respects, and it remains unclear just why and how this entity should count...

Is self-cognizance a uniquely human attribute, or do other animals also have a sense of self? Although there is considerable interest in this question, answers remain elusive. Progress has been stymied by misunderstandings in terminology, a focus on a narrow range of species, and controversies over key concepts, experimental paradigms and interpretations of data. Here, we propose a new conceptu...

Research studies addressing the distinctions between adolescent fathers and non-fathers' paternal role perceptual development and performance are scarce. As a result, our understanding of the antecedents of early paternity among African-American adolescent males is unclear and intervention strategies remain virtually untapped. This gap in knowledge represents a challenge to both social science ...