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The Science of Personality Changes

Are you the same person you were at 16? Researchers are exploring why some people do—or don’t—evolve over a lifetime.

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Looking back on your high-school self, you’re likely to think one of two things: that your older s

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Sharon Begley

Sharon Begley, our longtime science columnist, died of cancer on January 16, 2021, at age 64. Our thoughts and good wishes go out to her family and her wide circle of colleagues, for whom she was an exemplar of the highest standards of the journalistic profession.

Sharon was a senior science writer with The Boston Globe Media Group, author of Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain, and coauthor with Richard Davidson of The Emotional Life of Your Brain.

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