CONNECTING STUDENTS WITH THEIR FUTURE
The mission of Me in 10 is to investigate methods that will help students maintain a strong and positive connection to their long term goals. Everyday life presents challenges and obstacles that stand in the way of degree completion. As pressures build, it’s difficult for students to keep a strong connection with their future goals. Me in 10 aims to create venues where students can affirm their commitment to their future in a fun and engaging way.
ME IN 10
Through psychological exercises that will help shape their thought process and motivate students to overcome the challenges they face, Me in 10 intends to help students envision, connect, and achieve their future goals.
ENVISION
CONNECT
ACHIEVE
Students are challenged to envision what their future will look like and the impact they will make on their family and community.
As students continue to imagine themselves in the future, they begin to relate to their future self and understand how their work today will influence their goals.
The more a student connects with their future goals, the more motivated they are to persevere and achieve their goals.
WHY IT MATTERS
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PUBLICATIONS
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McMichael, S. L., Bixter, M. T., Okun, M. A., Bunker, C. J., Graudejus, O., Grimm, K. J.,
& Kwan, V. S. Y. (in press). Is seeing believing? A longitudinal study of vividness of the future and its effect on academic self-efficacy and success in college. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.
Bixter, M. T., McMichael, S. L., Bunker, C. J., Adelman, R. M., Okun, M. A., Grimm, K. J.,
Graudejus, O., & Kwan, V. S. Y. (2020). A test of a triadic conceptualization of future self-identification. PLoS ONE, 15(11): e0242504.
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Adelman, R. M., Herrmann, S. D., Bodford, J. E., Barbour, J. E., Graudejus, O., Okun, M. A.,
& Kwan, V. S. Y. (2017). Feeling closer to your future self and doing better: Temporal psychological mechanisms underlying academic performance. Journal of Personality, 85 (3), 398-408.
Herrmann, S. D., Adelman, R. M., Bodford, J. B., Graudejus, O., Okun, M. A., & Kwan, V. S. Y.
(2016). The effects of a female role model on academic performance and persistence of students enrolled in STEM courses. Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 38 (5), 258-268.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Hall, M. C., McMichael, S. L., & Kwan, V. S. Y. (2021). Familism maintains hope despite
loss of relatedness to the future self during the COVID-19 pandemic. Poster session presented at the twenty-second annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Virtual.
Redifer, K., McMichael, S. L., & Kwan, V. S. Y. (2021). Is self-continuity continuous? SES
moderates the relationship between past and future self-identification. Poster session presented at the twenty-second annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Virtual.
McMichael, S. L., & Kwan, V. S. Y. (2021). Depression in the class of 2020: Gender
differences in the benefits of vividness of the future career during COVID-19. Poster session presented at the twenty-second annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Virtual.
McMichael, S. L. & Kwan, V. S. Y. (2020). Effects of anticipated role conflict and vividness
of the future on career commitment. Poster session presented at the twenty-first annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
​McMichael, S. L., Bixter, M. T., & Kwan, V. S. Y. (2020). Post-graduation future vividness
and persistence: A longitudinal study of gender differences in college students. Poster session to be presented at the annual meeting for the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA.
A longitudinal study of vividness of the future and academic success for college students. Poster session presented at the principal investigator meeting of the Institute of Education Sciences, Washington, D.C.
McMichael, S. L., Kwan, V. S. Y., Okun, M. A., & Grimm, K. J. (2020). Is seeing believing?
Redifer K.D., McMichael, S.L., & Kwan, V.S.Y. (2020). Future vividness predicts downstream
depression in college students. Poster session presented at the twenty-first annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans, LA.
Bixter, M. T., Kwan, V. S. Y., Okun, M. A., Grimm, K. J., & Graudejus, O. (2019). Vividness and
positivity of the future self predict academic outcomes in college: Changes over time and ethnic differences. Poster presented at the 2019 Annual Principal Investigators Meeting of the Institute of Education Sciences: Washington, D.C.
your future self-vividness? Poster presented at the 20th Annual Convention for the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, Portland, OR.
Bunker, C. J., Bixter, M. T., & Kwan, V. S.Y. (2019). Do the big five predict the malleability of your
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McMichael, S. L., Bixter, M. T., & Kwan, V. S. Y. (2019). Sex differences in future vividness and
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academic disengagement. Poster session presented at the twentieth annual convention of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, OR.
Bixter, M. T., & Kwan, V. S. Y. (2018). Future self-connectedness improves academic motivation
and outcomes in college students. Talk presented at the 126th American Psychological Annual Convention: San Francisco, CA.
Kwan, V. S. Y. (Chair; 2018). Future Time Perspective: Conceptualizations, Consequences, and
Target for Interventions. Symposium presented at the Annual Meeting for the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
McMichael, S. L., Bixter, M. T., & Kwan, V. S. Y. (2018). Gender differences in future vividness
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vividness and academic disengagement. Poster session presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Naidu, E., Adelman, R., Bunker, C., Bixter, M., Graudejus, O., Okun, M., Kwan, V. S. Y. (2018). The
differential effects of familism values for hispanic and white students on future certainty. Poster presented at the Annual Convention for the American Psychological Association, San Francisco, CA.
Adelman, R.M., Okun, M. A., Graudejus, O., & Kwan, V. S. Y. (2017). With a Little Help from my
Future Self: Adaptive Benefits of Future Self-Connectedness. Symposium presented at the annual meeting for the American Psychological Association in Washington, D.C.
Adelman, R.M., Graudejus, O., Okun. M. A., & Kwan, V. S. Y. (2017). Connectedness to the Future
Self in Performance Contexts, Underlying Mechanisms, and the Role of Culture. Presented at the annual meeting for the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in San Antonio, TX.
The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R305A160023 to Arizona State University. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not represent views of the Institute or the U.S. Department of Education.
ABOUT US
We are the Culture and Decision Science Lab directed by Dr. Virginia Kwan at Arizona State University. We work with a wide array of students from ASU in creating an intervention to help reduce the dropout rate that affects millions of students nationwide. Our focus is to help students connect their current self perception with their future self perception in the hopes that they will feel more connected with their future goals.
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The team is compromised of different members with various interests that allow us to analyze problems from a variety of different perspectives.
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Special thanks for the collaboration with Arizona State University, the College of Liberal Arts, and School of Molecular Sciences.
QUESTIONS, COLLABORATION, SHARING YOUR WORK
If you're interested in helping students with their future self identification, please use the Contact Us form below to ask us any questions or share your work with us.
CONTACT US
Arizona State University
Department of Psychology
950 S. McAllister Ave.
Tempe, AZ 85287