The essential moral self

N Strohminger, S Nichols - Cognition, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

The cognitive foundations of reincarnation

C White - Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 2016 - brill.com
Anthropological records and psychological studies demonstrate the recurrence of ideas
about how to determine the identity of reincarnated persons. These ideas are often …

Establishing personal identity in reincarnation: Minds and bodies reconsidered

C White - Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2015 - brill.com
Little is known about how the minds and bodies of reincarnated agents are represented. In
three studies, participants decided which individual, out of multiple contenders, was most …

Who Wants to Live Forever?: Explaining the Cross-Cultural Recurrence of Reincarnation Beliefs

C White - Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2017 - brill.com
Around 30% of world cultures endorse reincarnation and 20% of contemporary Americans
think that reincarnation is plausible. This paper addresses the question of why belief in …

Cross-cultural similarities in reasoning about personal continuity in reincarnation: evidence from South India

C White - Religion, Brain & Behavior, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Ethnographic reports suggest the cross-cultural recurrence of practices designed to
determine who has returned to the human world through the process of reincarnation. This …

How to know you've survived death: A cognitive account of the popularity of contemporary post-mortem survival narratives

C White, M Kinsella, J Bering - Method & theory in the study of religion, 2018 - brill.com
Reports of people who have survived death have captured the attention of mainstream
audiences. Why do these ideas enjoy persistent and widespread success in contemporary …

[PDF][PDF] Memory as evidence of personal identity. A study on reincarnation beliefs

V Dranseika - 2022 - philarchive.org
There might […] have been evidence supporting the belief in reincarnation. One such piece
of evidence might be this. A Japanese woman might claim to remember living a life as a …

Memory as Evidence of Personal Identity

V Dranseika - Experimental Philosophy of Identity and the Self, 2022 - torrossa.com
There might [...] have been evidence supporting the belief in reincarnation. One such piece
of evidence might be this. A Japanese woman might claim to remember living a life as a …

[PDF][PDF] On Meaning and Possessions

C Rogers - roomtothink.net
This paper looks at two different types of meaning: the positive psychological construct of
meaning in life and the meaning of possessions. Meaning in life promotes subjective …

[PDF][PDF] DRAFT: FORTHCOMING IN METHOD AND THEORY IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION

C White - academia.edu
Anthropological records and psychological studies demonstrate the recurrence of ideas
about how to determine the identity of reincarnated persons. These ideas are often …