Can what happens in our life change who we are? renemottus explains when it does—and when it doesn't.
: “One gloomy prospect is that the salient environment might be unsystematic, idiosyncratic, or serendipitous events… Such capricious events, however, are likely to prove a dead end for research.”
When it comes to predicting personality trait change from ordinary life events, that gloomy prospect may have come to pass. Life events may change us, but not in predictable ways.If our personalities were predictably molded by the lottery of experiences that life happens to throw at us, this could be pretty unfair. Imagine one person losing their job and declining inas a result, while their friend enjoys a stable work experience and becomes ever more self-confident.
Instead, if most personality changes have many causes, good and bad influences can even out in the long run. If it is our unique reactions to these influences that ultimately matter, we are not passive recipients of whatever is thrown at us. Instead, we have an active role in whether and how events change us. And our own traits often matter for which events we come across, for better or worse.As a researcher, I agonize over the gloomy prospect. I would love to identify the life experiences that make personality trait change so common.
But as an individual, I would not like to see my traits being predictably pushed or pulled by events that happen to come my way. Nor would I like policymakers designing clever interventions to mess around with my traits, however good their intentions.
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