The purpose of this study is to replicate a previous explanation for the reason people think the worst of society (Eibach et al., 2012). In a series of studies, it was argued that the reason people wax nostalgic on the 'good old days' is that they mistake changes in themselves for changes in the world. This was argued most forcefully by having participants come up with easy or hard reasons about how they have changed (3 or 12 reasons, following Schwarz et al., 1991); participants who were able to recognize change in themselves easily attributed less change to the world around them, whereas if they found it difficult to recognize change in themselves they attributed it to change in the world (Eibach et al., 2003, study 4). We wish to test the replicability of mistaken change in the self as an explanation for the belief that 'kids these days' are the downfall of civilization. To this, we will test it in a large sample of respondents from across the United States (N=1500) drawn in a stratified way with unequal probabilities of selection, so that the people who complete each survey will resemble the nation's adult population (according to the most recently available Current Population Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau) in terms of gender, age, education, ethnicity (Hispanic vs. not), race (allowing each respondent to select more than one race), region, and income. Unfortunately, the 3/12 reason paradigm has been shown to not replicate in online panels (Yeager et al.). As such, we sought the second strongest test of the *mistaken change in self* explanation. In coordination with the original author (R. Eibach), we concluded that the strongest test with the best chance of rpelicability was manipulating whether participants recognized changes in others before or after recognizing changes in their own driving over the past 10 years (Eibach et al., 2012, study 3). Thus, it is that study we sought to replicate. **References** Eibach, R. P., Libby, L. K., & Gilovich, T. D. (2003). When change in the self is mistaken for change in the world. *Journal of personality and social psychology*, 84(5), 917-931. Eibach, R. P., Libby, L. K., & Ehrlinger, J. (2012). Unrecognized changes in the self contribute to exaggerated judgments of external decline. *Basic and Applied Social Psychology*, 34(3), 193-203. Schwarz, N., Bless, H., Strack, F., Klumpp, G., Rittenauer-Schatka, H., & Simons, A. (1991). Ease of retrieval as information: Another look at the availability heuristic. *Journal of Personality and Social Psychology*, 61, 195–202. Yeager, D. S., Krosnick, J. A., Visser, P., Holbrook, A., & Tahk, A. Social Psychology Outside the Lab: Do Findings from Convenience Samples of College Students Generalize to the American Population? *Unpublished Manuscript*.