Exploring the Concept-of-Self

 "That is such a 'me' thing to do",

"I have always been like this",

"I wasn't myself yesterday".

Sound familiar?

We use and hear statements like this all the time. There is an inherent implicit understanding of the self most people have, without ever having consciously thought about the concept and we don't all mean the same thing. What if this understanding is influencing our interactions, the way we understand the world and events that happen?

This research measures how an individual thinks about and understands the concept-of-self and examines if there is a relationship to how we interpret our interactions and experiences.

An a priori, internal, and intrapersonal notion of how an individual understands and thinks about self in a personal sense; of me-ness, I, or myself "my own self", "of being ‘me’”- their concept-of-self.

| Nature-of-self |

A metaphysical and phenomenological notion of how an individual understands and thinks about self in a general sense (in the world); "essence of self"- the nature-of-self