Molouki Sarah, Bartels Daniel M
University of Chicago, 5807 S. Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, IL 60637, United States.
Cogn Psychol. 2017 Mar;93:1-17. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2016.11.006. Epub 2016 Dec 28.
Five studies explore how anticipating different types of personal change affects people's perceptions of their own self-continuity. The studies find that improvements are seen as less disruptive to personal continuity than worsening or unspecified change, although this difference varies in magnitude based on the type of feature being considered. Also, people's expectations and desires matter. For example, a negative change is highly disruptive to perceived continuity when people expect improvement and less disruptive when people expect to worsen. The finding that some types of change are consistent with perceptions of self-continuity suggests that the self-concept may include beliefs about personal development.
五项研究探讨了预期不同类型的个人变化如何影响人们对自身自我连续性的认知。研究发现，与恶化或未明确说明的变化相比，改善被视为对个人连续性的干扰较小，尽管这种差异的大小因所考虑的特征类型而异。此外，人们的期望和欲望也很重要。例如，当人们期望改善时，负面变化对感知到的连续性具有高度干扰性，而当人们期望恶化时，干扰性则较小。某些类型的变化与自我连续性的认知相一致这一发现表明，自我概念可能包括有关个人发展的信念。
