Next Big Question: "Who Are You?" (Introduction)
Many CIFAR researchers have provided surprising and entertaining arguments related to what they think is the Next Big Question. For the Next Big Question event of 2011, three CIFAR researchers shared their perspectives on the nature of identity.
Many CIFAR researchers have provided surprising and entertaining arguments related to what they think is the Next Big Question. At the Next Big Question event in 2011, three CIFAR researchers – Alex Haslam, Clyde Hertzman, and Irene Bloemraad – shared their perspectives on the nature of identity.
Their objective was to answer to the question, “Who Are You?”
Social Psychologist Alex Haslam, a Fellow in our Social Interactions Identity and Well-Being program, argued that we are the groups that we belong to.
Epidemiologist Clyde Hertzman is a Fellow in our Successful Societies program and our Experience-based Brain & Biological Development program, and he believes that we are what our genes experience.
Irene Bloemraad is a Scholar in our Social Interactions Identity and Well-Being program, and she studies identity, citizenship and immigration. She argued that we are our citizenship.
