Publication Date:
2013-01-05
Description:
We measured the personalities, values, and preferences of more than 19,000 people who ranged in age from 18 to 68 and asked them to report how much they had changed in the past decade and/or to predict how much they would change in the next decade. Young people, middle-aged people, and older people all believed they had changed a lot in the past but would change relatively little in the future. People, it seems, regard the present as a watershed moment at which they have finally become the person they will be for the rest of their lives. This "end of history illusion" had practical consequences, leading people to overpay for future opportunities to indulge their current preferences.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Quoidbach, Jordi -- Gilbert, Daniel T -- Wilson, Timothy D -- P01 AG020166/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2013 Jan 4;339(6115):96-8. doi: 10.1126/science.1229294.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉National Fund for Scientific Research, Brussels, Belgium.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23288539" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Aged
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Female
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*Forecasting
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History
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Humans
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*Illusions
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Male
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Middle Aged
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Personality
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Self Report
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*Time Perception
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Young Adult
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
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