Identity: profile and share cards

What it does in Road Mates

• Your bio is the person you are becoming, not a job title.
• Your profile shows your proofs and your heatmap.
• Share cards turn your profile, road or a passed phase into an image to post.

How it works

• Stating who you are becoming ties each action to a self you care about.
• Showing it to others makes the identity real and harder to drop.
• Cards carry a referral link, so sharing also invites people on the same road.

What the research found

Identity-based motivation theory says people act in line with the identities that feel active, and that difficulty feels meaningful when the action fits who they are. We did not find a meta-analysis with a pooled effect. Single studies of possible selves and study effort report effects around d = 0.3 to 0.5.

Limits

• No pooled effect size, so we cannot put a reliable number on it.
• The studies we found were mostly with students.
• We count it at zero in the estimate and expect it to help retention more than outcomes.