{"id":3899,"date":"2013-01-05T13:29:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-05T18:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2013-11-12T11:55:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-12T16:55:37","slug":"you-may-not-know-it-but-youre-changing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2013\/01\/05\/you-may-not-know-it-but-youre-changing\/","title":{"rendered":"You May Not Know It, But You’re Changing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No matter who you are today, you\u2019ll likely be a pretty different person in ten years.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t agree?\u00a0 According to a recent study<\/a> conducted by Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert, you\u2019d be in the majority.\u00a0 Most people generally fail to appreciate how much their personality and values will change in the upcoming years, even if they recognize how much they\u2019ve changed in the past.<\/p>\n

“I have this deep sense that although I will physically age—I’ll have even less hair than I do and probably a few more pounds—that by and large the core of me, my identity, my values, my personality, my deepest preferences, are not going to change from here on out,” says\u00a0Gilbert<\/a>, who is 55.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As NPR reported<\/a>, Gilbert wanted to see if others felt the same.\u00a0 So, he and his colleagues Jordi Quoidbach and Timothy Wilson analyzed data from over 19,000 surveys and found that people, whether they are teenagers or middle-aged, underestimate how much they will change in the future. \u00a0Life is a process of growing and changing that never really stops, but people of a variety of ages seem to think it does.<\/p>\n

Personality changes do take place faster when people are younger, \u00a0says Gilbert, so “a person who says I’ve changed more in the past decade than I expect to change in the future is not wrong.” \u00a0But that doesn’t mean they fully understand what’s still to come. “Their estimates of how much they’ll change in the future are underestimates,” says Gilbert. “They are going to change more than they realize. Change does slow; it just doesn’t slow as much as we think it will.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Gilbert and his colleagues don\u2019t yet know why many of us seem to have an \u201cend of history illusion.\u201d\u00a0 It might be really difficult to imagine a different future, or it might be difficult to think of unknown change.
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