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We’ve all heard the adage “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks." But new research reveals that you CAN teach an older adult how to improve their brain skills, with the added effect of changing a personality trait, making them more open to new...
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This blog post contributes to the fact that personality is not genetically set in stone, nor does it reach complete maturity by early adulthood, (Srivastava, 2003). It was interesting to see the incorporation of cognitive skills developing openness. Srivastava supports this belief stating, "As an individual continues to live and grow older, he experiences social roles, life events, and environment changes. These changes create an option of choice that in turn affects their personality change," (Srivastava, 2003). The information used by the author was very compelling and agreed with Srvistava and many other psychologist believing in malleable personality changes. S/he also believed that future studies need to continue in order to come to the same results. This blog post did not include people under the age of 60 and would be compelling to see if results would be just as similar among people scoring in the same regions in openness as their older peers. Srivastava, S., John, O., Gosling, S., & Potter, J. (2003). Development Of Personality In
Early And Middle Adulthood: Set Like Plaster Or Persistent Change? Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 84(5), 1041-1053