A fast-growing body of evidence suggests that people have difficulties in envisioning how their future selves will look like and behave. So, what determines that one's future self feels like a dissimilar stranger or exactly the same person? Here, we review relevant work and propose a three-factor framework in an effort to organize and highlight important findings. Our review suggests that who we are, what dimension we focus on, as well as the cognitive and affective states we are in, impact the way we envision our future self being similar or different from our current self. We conclude with remaining questions that are yet to be explored.

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陌生人还是克隆人？未来的自我联系取决于你问谁、什么时候问，以及你关注的维度

越来越多的证据表明，人们很难想象自己未来的样子和行为方式。那么，是什么决定了一个人未来的自我感觉像是一个不同的陌生人或完全相同的人呢？在这里，我们回顾了相关工作并提出了一个三因素框架，以努力组织和突出重要发现。我们的评论表明，我们是谁，我们关注的维度，以及我们所处的认知和情感状态，会影响我们想象未来自我与当前自我相似或不同的方式。我们以尚未探索的剩余问题结束。