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191. Can You Change Your Personality?

Are you the same person you were a decade ago? Do we get better as we age? And is your sixth-grade class clown still funny? 

 

  • SOURCES:
    • Aaron (Tim) Beck, professor emeritus of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania.
    • Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard University.
    • Olga Khazan, staff writer at The Atlantic. 
    • Brian Little, professor of psychology at the University of Cambridge.
    • Jordi Quoidbach, professor of people management and organisation at ESADE, University Ramon Llull.
    • Carl Rogers, 20th-century psychologist.
    • Martin Short, actor and comedian.
    • Richard Wiseman, professor of the public understanding of psychology at the University of Hertfordshire.
    • Timothy Wilson, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia.

 

 

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