From: The New York Times
The Gift of Getting Weirder With Age
May 4, 2026
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Rebecca Schlegel, a professor of psychology and brain sciences at Texas A&M University who studies the “true self,” told me people can feel that they become more authentic over time. In her research, participants aged 19 to 67 were asked to think about life as if it were a book and rate each “chapter” using an authenticity scale.
Dr. Schlegel and her co-author found that the subjects tended to believe they were getting closer to their true selves over the course of their lives. “They also think they’re going to be even more authentic in the future,” she added.
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