how procrastination affected the view of future selves
people were asked to picture 3 things while their neurons are being monitored:
- future selves
- current selves
- some stranger
2 cases, when people pictured their future selves:
- neurons were activated in a similar way to when they pictured their current selves (they felt a high continuity with who they would be in the future)
- neurons were activated in a similar way to when they pictured some stranger (less future self continuity)
case 2 tended to procrastinate more