{"pk":25651,"title":"Personal Change and the Continuity of Identity","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The current research examines what types of change are\nperceived as allowable versus disallowable in the self while\nstill maintaining a sense of personal continuity. We find that\noverall, improvements are seen as more allowable than\nworsening or unspecified change, although this difference\nvaries in magnitude based on the centrality of the trait being\nconsidered. Additionally, valence interacts with expectations\nof change, such that the differential impact of positive versus\nnegative change on self-continuity is largest when positive\nchange is expected, but is attenuated when negative change is\nexpected.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"psychological essentialism; change; identity; self;\nself-concept; feature centrality"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5j19n8kg","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Sarah","middle_name":"","last_name":"Molouki","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Chicago","department":""},{"first_name":"Daniel","middle_name":"M","last_name":"Bartels","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Chicago","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25651/galley/15275/download/"}]}