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Adventurous_Fan_4319 t1_jcgmkx2 wrote

Does personality stay fixed over time? Or does it change over your lifetime?

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truity_psych OP t1_jcgnqb2 wrote

Personality is traditionally understood as those aspects of yourself that don't change, but recent research has shown that this isn't strictly true. Although people don't generally undergo a complete personality change (apart from edge cases like major brain injury), people's personalities do shift over the lifetime. There are some predictable shifts, i.e. most people do become more introverted and more conscientious as they age. And then there are individual shifts that may have to do with changing careers and discovering a new side of yourself, or starting a family, or even adapting to a new culture.

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diesiraeSadness t1_jcgxh2n wrote

Would you be able to link to that research? I am interested.

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