The essential moral self. Strohminger, N. & Nichols, S. Cognition, 131(1):159–171, 2014. ![The essential moral self [link]](https://bibbase.org/img/filetypes/link.svg "link")
Paper doi abstract bibtex It has often been suggested that the mind is central to personal identity. But do all parts of the mind contribute equally? Across five experiments, we demonstrate that moral traits-more than any other mental faculty-are considered the most essential part of identity, the self, and the soul. Memory, especially emotional and autobiographical memory, is also fairly important. Lower-level cognition and perception have the most tenuous connection to identity, rivaling that of purely physical traits. These findings suggest that folk notions of personal identity are largely informed by the mental faculties affecting social relationships, with a particularly keen focus on moral traits. \textcopyright 2013 Elsevier B.V.
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abstract = {It has often been suggested that the mind is central to personal identity. But do all parts of the mind contribute equally? Across five experiments, we demonstrate that moral traits-more than any other mental faculty-are considered the most essential part of identity, the self, and the soul. Memory, especially emotional and autobiographical memory, is also fairly important. Lower-level cognition and perception have the most tenuous connection to identity, rivaling that of purely physical traits. These findings suggest that folk notions of personal identity are largely informed by the mental faculties affecting social relationships, with a particularly keen focus on moral traits. {\textcopyright} 2013 Elsevier B.V.},
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title = {{The essential moral self}},
url = {https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0010027713002497},
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