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  • Self-continuity, the sense of connection to past and future selves, diminishes over time.
  • Temporal discounting, the devaluation of delayed outcomes, is a related but not fully understood phenomenon.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the patterns of self-continuity decline over time.
  • To explore the relationship between self-continuity and temporal discounting across different age groups.

Main Methods:

  • Assessed past and future self-continuity and temporal discounting across multiple time intervals in two U.S. adult samples (N=86/461).
  • Applied exponential, hyperbolic, and q-exponential models to analyze self-continuity data.
  • Examined associations between self-continuity and temporal discounting.

Main Results:

  • The q-exponential model best described both self-continuity and temporal discounting patterns.
  • Associations between temporal discounting and self-continuity were observed at specific time intervals, but not consistently across average levels or slopes.

Conclusions:

  • Self-continuity and temporal discounting follow similar mathematical patterns, best modeled by the q-exponential function.
  • The link between self-continuity and temporal discounting is complex and context-dependent, varying across time intervals.