很多人感觉现在的自己已不是”原来的自己”
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2000年12月7日
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - How do you answer the following question: Am I the same person I was 8 years ago?
New research shows that a large proportion of people believe that they are not the same person that they were a few years ago. The more time that passed, the less likely this group was to be connected to their ``previous'' self.
``These people see their current identities as distinct and separate from who they were less than a decade ago. They express difficulty in relating to their former selves,'' researcher James Lampinen, a psychologist at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville told Reuters Health.
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The tendency to have this disconnected perception of self, over time, is termed diachronic disunity--literally two perceptions over time that do not connect.
``The people...say that when they think about who they were several years ago, it in some sense doesn't feel like them,'' Lampinen added. Nevertheless, these individuals do recognize some continuity of self over time. They recognize that they have the same physical body they did 5 years ago, and that past events have shaped them psychologically, the researcher explained.
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Over the past year, Lampinen has analyzed nearly 500 college students' perceptions of themselves over time and recently presented the results of four separate studies at a symposium called ``Memory and the Self'' at the University of Arkansas.
He reported that a little over 10% of college students surveyed believed that they ``were not the same person that they were 2 years ago.'' That number jumped to a little over 30% for people who did not think they were the same person they were 8 years ago, according to Lampinen.
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People who exhibited diachronic disunity tendencies were more uncomfortable with past behavior that was not consistent with how they might behave in the present--for example, previously being dishonest with a loved one despite presently perceiving themselves as honest.
``How we think of ourselves is important, it affects our self-esteem, our ability to take chances, and it impacts our social relationships,'' the researcher said.
, 百拇医药 ``Our working hypothesis is that people who have a low tolerance for ambiguity (the disconnect they feel from the past behavior) may deal with the past actions that are inconsistent with their current sense of self by concluding, 'Well that wasn't me who did those things,''' Lampinen explained.
Ultimately, he identified two common types of thinkers. Those people who look back on their life like a book--the events that they experience are connected and relate chronologically through time. Some people, on the other hand, view the past as mini-vignettes--like short movies that are not necessarily strongly related to one another.
For now, Lampinen cannot say for sure that one way of thinking is better than the other--although diachronic disunity thinkers showed a slightly lower satisfaction with life.
One possible explanation for diachronic disunity may be that it serves as a coping mechanism for dealing with past events or negative behavior, he noted., 百拇医药
New research shows that a large proportion of people believe that they are not the same person that they were a few years ago. The more time that passed, the less likely this group was to be connected to their ``previous'' self.
``These people see their current identities as distinct and separate from who they were less than a decade ago. They express difficulty in relating to their former selves,'' researcher James Lampinen, a psychologist at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville told Reuters Health.
, http://www.100md.com
The tendency to have this disconnected perception of self, over time, is termed diachronic disunity--literally two perceptions over time that do not connect.
``The people...say that when they think about who they were several years ago, it in some sense doesn't feel like them,'' Lampinen added. Nevertheless, these individuals do recognize some continuity of self over time. They recognize that they have the same physical body they did 5 years ago, and that past events have shaped them psychologically, the researcher explained.
, 百拇医药
Over the past year, Lampinen has analyzed nearly 500 college students' perceptions of themselves over time and recently presented the results of four separate studies at a symposium called ``Memory and the Self'' at the University of Arkansas.
He reported that a little over 10% of college students surveyed believed that they ``were not the same person that they were 2 years ago.'' That number jumped to a little over 30% for people who did not think they were the same person they were 8 years ago, according to Lampinen.
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People who exhibited diachronic disunity tendencies were more uncomfortable with past behavior that was not consistent with how they might behave in the present--for example, previously being dishonest with a loved one despite presently perceiving themselves as honest.
``How we think of ourselves is important, it affects our self-esteem, our ability to take chances, and it impacts our social relationships,'' the researcher said.
, 百拇医药 ``Our working hypothesis is that people who have a low tolerance for ambiguity (the disconnect they feel from the past behavior) may deal with the past actions that are inconsistent with their current sense of self by concluding, 'Well that wasn't me who did those things,''' Lampinen explained.
Ultimately, he identified two common types of thinkers. Those people who look back on their life like a book--the events that they experience are connected and relate chronologically through time. Some people, on the other hand, view the past as mini-vignettes--like short movies that are not necessarily strongly related to one another.
For now, Lampinen cannot say for sure that one way of thinking is better than the other--although diachronic disunity thinkers showed a slightly lower satisfaction with life.
One possible explanation for diachronic disunity may be that it serves as a coping mechanism for dealing with past events or negative behavior, he noted., 百拇医药