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There is overwhelming psychological evidence that some people run into self-control problems regularly, yet the effect of these findings on major life-cycle decisions hasn't been studied in detail. This paper extends Laibson's quasi-hyperbolic discounting savings model, in which each intertemporal self realizes that her time discount structure will lead to preference changes, and thus plays a g...

By providing an opportunity for self-expression, music facilitates the reproduction and transformation of identities established in individual. Having understanding possible musical self residing within existing self-concept can help us make sense time energy required to become a musician. The present study attempts understand qualities or characteristics musicians use describe their selves. sa...

We developed a 9-week after-school, small group, activities-based intervention focused on enhancing youth's abilities to imagine themselves as successful adults and connecting these future imagines to current school involvement. We describe and evaluate this programme comparing three cohorts of urban African American middle school students (n=62 experimental, n=146 control), controlling for sex...