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Simply Imagining Other People Can Change Our Own Sense Of Self

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New study shows that our personal memories might not be personal at all.
All it takes to change your memories is thinking about a different person, and considering how they would approach what happened to you.
Perhaps our character isn’t as unique as we think, but more fluid, and changed by every person we meet.
Our evaluation of ourselves changes even when we think of objects, not just other people.

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Science (91) Yale scientists repair injured spinal cords using patients’ own stem cells
Psychology (111) Narcissism Driven by Insecurity, Not Grandiose Sense of Self, New Psychology Research Shows
Cosmos (42) Scientists Discover The Oldest Supermassive Black Hole, and It’s Too Big
History (19) ‘Viking’ was a job description, not a matter of heredity, massive ancient DNA study shows
Society (100) Decades of research reveals very little difference between male and female brains
Medicine (95) Scientists identify over 140,000 virus species in the human gut, half of which are new to science
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Nature (60) Training methods based on punishment compromise dog welfare

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