Ajob Empirical Bioethics 10 (2):136-153 (2019)
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Background: Recent literature on addiction and judgments about the
characteristics of agents has focused on the implications of adopting a ‘brain
disease’ versus ‘moral weakness’ model of addiction. Typically, such
judgments have to do with what capacities an agent has (e.g., the ability to
abstain from substance use). Much less work, however, has been conducted on
the relationship between addiction and judgments about an agent’s identity,
including whether or to what extent an individual is seen as the same person
after becoming addicted. Methods: We conducted a series of vignette-based
experiments (total N = 3,620) to assess lay attitudes concerning addiction and
identity persistence, systematically manipulating key characteristics of agents
and their drug of addiction. Conclusions: In Study 1, we found that US
participants judged an agent who became addicted to drugs as being closer to
‘a completely different person’ than ‘completely the same person’ as the agent
who existed prior to the addiction. In Studies 2-6, we investigated the intuitive
basis for this result, finding that lay judgments of altered identity as a
consequence of drug use and addiction are driven primarily by perceived
negative changes in the moral character of drug users, who are seen as having
deviated from their good true selves.
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Keywords | addiction personal identity true self moral self |
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DOI | 10.1080/23294515.2019.1590480 |
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Personal Identity.David Shoemaker & Kevin P. Tobia - forthcoming - In Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology. Oxford:
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