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future self-continuity: a standalone construct

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Social psychology

how similar and connected people feel to the person they will become, which shapes saving and other choices for later.

In social psychology, future self-continuity refers to how similar and connected people feel to the person they will become, which shapes saving and other choices for later. This meaning comes from Hershfield (2011) in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.[1]

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References

Hershfield, H. E. (2011). Future self‐continuity: how conceptions of the future self transform intertemporal choice. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1235(1), 30-43. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06201.x

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