Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Personality cw Identity

Personality:
In Psychology: the patterns of behavior, thought, and emotion unique to an individual. Exponents of behaviorism suggest that an individual's personality is developed through external stimuli. In the behaviorist model, personality can change significantly with a shift to a new environment.

Digital identity:
"The identity of a person, group, thing, process or any other entity is often expressed through a digital identifier within a certain context. A Social Security Number is a digital identifier that identifies a person within the context of the social security administration."

Cultural identity:
"Cultural identity is the (feeling of) identity of a group or culture, or of an individual as far as he is influenced by his belonging to a group or culture. Common habits, characteristics, ideas may be clear markers of a shared cultural identity, but essentially it is determined by difference: we feel we belong to a group, and a group defines itself as a group, by noticing and highlighting differences with other groups and cultures."

Personal identity:
"People have different physical appearances notably the sexual gender, shape of the face, skin pigmentation, height, and color of hair. The choice of clothing and bodily adornments vary. Sounds can be used for identification: the voice, language, timber, vocabulary, physical movements." There are questions about Persistence: What does it take for a person to persist - for the same person to exist at different times?

[Identity defs from: Wikipedia]

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