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Making friends with your past and future selves
 Are you the same person you were when you were younger? People vary in how close they feel to their past and future selves, a trait known as self-continuity. Those with greater self-continuity are more likely to make responsible, long-term decisions, research shows. These five self-portraits by the German painter Albrecht Dürer show the artist at age 13, 22, 27, 29 and 51 (left to right).
Many of us look back at our former selves and wince to recall our immaturity. We vary quite a lot in the degree to which we feel friendly toward, and connected to, both our former and our future selves. Psychologists call this trait self-continuity, and suggest that it carries enormous weight in determining our long-term well-being.
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Editor's Note: For more than a decade, scientists have searched for ways to manipulate self-continuity in study participants to try to get them to behave more prudently. They have reported success with a variety of approaches, including having people interact with a computer-generated older version of themselves, sometimes with the help of virtual-reality glasses.
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