# Prof. Hal Hershfield's research shows viewing your future-self can help you save

1 Faculty News April 11, 2012 ![NPR logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030855.jpg?itok=Ti1_93MD)>

Excerpt from [NPR All Things Considered](http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150424912/your-virtual-future-self-wants-you-to-save-up) -- "[Hershfield](http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/hal-hershfield) and a group of researchers wanted to help young people vividly imagine their own old age, so they recruited college-age men and women, gave them goggles and sent them into a virtual reality laboratory where they encountered a kind of mirror."

[Read more](http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150424912/your-virtual-future-self-wants-you-to-save-up)

Additional coverage appeared in [KOSU.org](http://kosu.org/2012/04/your-virtual-future-self-wants-you-to-save-up/).