5 Ways Travel Can Change You

Traveling, especially on long trips, makes us experience new things, but does it actually change us? Dr. Julia Zimmermann and researcher Franz Neyer published a paper in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology that proves that traveling can truly change your personality.

The experiment involved studying a group of German students, half who traveled and studied abroad for a semester or two and another half who didn't. They were all tested on the "Big Five" personality traits (i.e. openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and emotional stability) before and after their travels. The students who traveled all scored higher for each trait after they returned as well as in comparison to the students who stayed in Germany. 

Want to learn more about how travel changes you? Read on for 5 ways. 

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