Ipseology

A new science of the self

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Astronomers slowly made sense of the cosmos by following the stars night after night. I suggest we examine identity in a similar way. Let's observe the words individuals use to describe themselves day after day.

With this book, you will be introduced to ipseology - a new approach to studying human selves. Ipseology is based on the idea we can learn a lot about people from their self-authored self-descriptions.

We'll compare and contrast self-descriptions from millions of people around the world. How did the words individuals chose to describe themselves change over time? How did these differ across nations?

Let's find answers to those questions and more with ipseology!

About the author

Dr. Jason Jeffrey Jones is a computational social scientist whose expertise includes online experiments, social networks, high-throughput text analysis and machine learning. He is interested in humans' perceptions of themselves and the developing role of artificial intelligence in society.

Dr. Jones' research is published in numerous peer-reviewed journals and has been cited thousands of times. His work has been discussed in the New York Times, The Atlantic and the Washington Post.

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