Meet Your Future Self

Guest: Hal Hershfield, social psychologist at UCLA Anderson and his research focuses on how human behavior can be modified by bringing people closer to their future selves  If you could hop in a time machine, go 40 years into the future and spend an hour with your future self—how do you suppose your behavior today might change? Would you start taking care of your body better? Tuck more money away for retirement?  Probably so, according to researchers at UCLA Anderson who’ve been conducting experiments in which they introduce people to a version of their future selves.