What, if any, are the main intellectual, belief, moral, or character changes that tend to occur among people who intensively study philosophy?

I'm especially interested in any changes that accompany the study of philosophy as it's done in the contemporary, western, and broadly-analytic tradition although I recognize that philosophy as it's done at many times and places will be more or less similar to that and will involve more or less similar changes.

Changes I have in mind might be, for example, increasing secularization, skepticism, pragmaticism, etc. I'm not maintaining that these should definitely be included among such changes (although I think they very well might be) but am just giving them as examples to get your own thinking started.

Please support your answer with whatever observations or personal experiences you can.

What, if any, are the main intellectual, belief, moral, or character changes that tend to occur among people who intensively study philosophy?

I'm especially interested in any changes that accompany the study of philosophy as it's done in the contemporary, western, and broadly-analytic tradition although I recognize that philosophy as it's done at many times and places will be more or less similar to that and will involve more or less similar changes.

Changes I have in mind might be, for example, increasing secularization, skepticism, pragmaticism, etc. I'm not maintaining that these should definitely be included among such changes (although I think they very well might be) but am just giving them as examples to get your own thinking started.

Please support your answer with whatever observations or personal experiences you can.

Here is one view by a (broadly speaking) analytic philosopher:

the value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

And, I might add, a greater facility in the ability to think critically about abstract matters.

The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very uncertainty. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason. To such a man the world tends to become definite, finite, obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected. As soon as we begin to philosophize, on the contrary, we find, as we saw in our opening chapters, that even the most everyday things lead to problems to which only very incomplete answers can be given. Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possibilities which enlarge our thoughts and free them from the tyranny of custom. Thus, while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are, it greatly increases our knowledge as to what they may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt, and it keeps alive our sense of wonder by showing familiar things in an unfamiliar aspect.

The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are
right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly
understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who
believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are
usually the slave of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear
voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler
of a few years back.

Here is one view by a (broadly speaking) analytic philosopher:

the value of philosophy by Bertrand Russell

And, I might add, a greater facility in the ability to think critically about abstract matters.

Kenn... Thinking is the process of abstraction, and the manipulation of abstraction...It is nice to turn the light which we shine on all reality on the process of thought itself, but it only confuses the issue to say we think about abstract matters...It is all abstraction, but are we willing to check our abstractions of reality against our reality, or see if there is any reality behind our abstractions???

I meant that when we think about philosophy we think about abstract matters. Not, of course, when I think about what I am going to have for dinner. There is no such thing as "our reality". I think you must mean "our view", or our "understanding of reality". We often have good reason to think that our view of reality corresponds with reality.

What, if any, are the main intellectual, belief, moral, or character changes that tend to occur among people who intensively study philosophy?

Personally philosophy has made me less scared to have my own beliefs and live differently from others around me. It made me more aware of the history of how some humans have tried to understand and improve the world often in very passionate ways, and made me more passionate about the things that I do.

The biggest change is that I am more pragmatic. Before I was becoming afraid to be a part of society because it might be wrong and I didn't want to do the things I was good at just because I was good at them because that might have been wrong. Now I find myself more flexible, less about right/wrong, more accepting of the way things are.

Basicly I was a really weird, frightened and unhappy person before. Now I am happier, less frightened, and just as weird. I don't know how much to attribute that to philosophy or just life.

Philosophy has made me scared to have any beliefs...

Is that because you believe philosophy shows up all beliefs?