Guest: Dr. Russell Belk
How do possessions and external objects become incorporated into identity? What does consumer behavior reveal about the boundaries and extensibility of the self-concept?
Guest: Dr. Jennifer Windt
What happens to the sense of self during dreaming? How do dream selves differ from waking selves, and what does this variability reveal about the construction of identity?
Guest: Dr. Francesca Happé
How does autism reveal different ways of constructing self-experience? What can atypical development teach us about the social scaffolding of typical identity formation and the diversity of possible selves?
Guest: Dr. Shoshana Zuboff
How does constant digital surveillance alter self-construction and behavior? What are the psychological consequences of living under the assumption of being perpetually observed and analyzed?
Guest: Dr. Michael Gazzaniga
How does the brain's interpreter module construct coherent narratives from fragmented neural processes? What do split-brain studies reveal about the self's compulsion to explain itself even when those explanations are confabulations?
Guest: Dr. June Tangney
How do shame and guilt shape moral identity differently? What role do self-conscious emotions play in regulating behavior and maintaining social bonds, and what happens when these systems malfunction?