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We feel more similar to our future selves than our past selves

Can you think back to what you were like ten years ago? Do you think that who you are now is more similar to that past version of yourself, or the person you will be in ten years’ time? According to a set of 12 online studies on 11,416 people, reported in a recent paper in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, you probably went for future-you. Their recent finding that people feel more similar to their future, rather than past, selves, could have implications for our decision-making, write Jareef Martuza at the Norwegian School of Economics and colleagues. ….[READ]

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