Zimbardo's Time Perspective Analysis

We all begin life as present hedonistic, wanting pleasure and avoiding pain. Growing up and going through experiences changes and focus our minds on different time frameworks. Dr. Zimbardo describes the six different time zones in his Time Perspective Theory. The time perspective biases of Zimbardo’s Theory are past negative, past positive, present fatalistic, present hedonistic, future positive and future negative. More than one of these time frameworks make up some aspects of our personality. Dr. Zimbardo shows how focused and persevere an individual is towards long term goals or if they choose a short term future. Certainly, he believes our minds are focused on several of these time zones and so, our actions and thoughts are relevant to the time perspective we live in. According to Zimbardo’s Time Orientation Framework my personality can be defined as high past negative, moderate present hedonistic and high
For example, while growing up I remember not being able to trust people. I always saw people do different than what they said and never kept their promises. This brought me a great deal of trust issues. After the feelings of betrayal and hopelessness my behavior began to change, I became more conservative, lonely, and doubtful of people. Any events that are traumatic enough can trigger the time perspective our mind focuses on, and of course our attitude. Past negative people will remember the most negative and traumatic events they lived in the past and tend to dwell on them for their entire life. Meaning, they will always remember feelings of trauma, failure and frustration. Fearing they will experience the same circumstance past negative people become conservative and focused. Being high past negative also has a positive side, Dr. Zimbardo states that past negative person has a sense of personal continuity or a stable sense of self