Science
4 January 2013:
Vol. 339
no. 6115
pp.
96-98
DOI:
10.1126/science.1229294
Jordi Quoidbach, Daniel T. Gilbert and Timothy D. Wilson
Abstract
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.
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