What is it about?
The study found that the three parts of our sense of Selfhood (“Self,” “Me,” and “I”) stay quite stable over time. Each part is reliable on its own, and their overall pattern is even more consistent, regardless of age, time between tests, or health conditions.
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Why is it important?
It’s unique and timely because it provides the first strong evidence that these core Selfhood aspects and overall configuration behave like lasting traits.
Perspectives
At a time when personal identity is often discussed as fluid and easily shaped by context, this research adds an important counterbalance by showing that some deep layers of Selfhood are far more stable than we might assume.
Dr. Alexander A Fingelkurts
BM-Science
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This page is a summary of: Trait-like stability of selfhood triumvirate and its constituent aspects: A qEEG intra-individual test–retest reliability study, Consciousness and Cognition, March 2026, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2026.104004.
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