Episodic future thinking and episodic counterfactual thinking: Intersections between memory and decisions [PDF]
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 2015 This article considers two recent lines of research concerned with the construction of imagined or simulated events that can provide insight into the relationship between memory and decision making. One line of research concerns episodic future thinking, which involves simulating episodes that might occur in one's personal future, and the other ...
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Testing the modifiability of episodic future thinking and episodic memory among suicidal and nonsuicidal adolescents [PDF]
JCPP AdvancesBackground Despite increased attention on treatment and prevention for suicidal adolescents, we know little about potential intervention targets.
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PLoS ONE, 2019 ObjectiveDelay discounting (DD) is the choice of a smaller immediate reward over a larger delayed reward, which has been associated with a number of maladaptive behaviors. Episodic future thinking (EFT), the ability to project oneself into the future, is
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A Terrible Future: Episodic Future Thinking and the Perceived Risk of Terrorism [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Terrorism is a salient risk source in 21st century life and may deter tourists from visiting certain destinations. How people perceive the risk of a future terror attack abroad, and thus their traveling decisions, may be influenced by whether they think ...
Simen Bø, Katharina Wolff
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Positive episodic future thinking and its impact on the perceived performance anxiety in performing artists [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyPerformance anxiety is characterized by specific fears of social situations involving potentially being judged or scrutinized by others. Research on coping strategies has focused on breathing techniques, biofeedback training and the use of beta-blockers;
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Exploring the association between episodic future thinking and learning engagement under intrinsic motivation mediation and teacher support moderation [PDF]
Scientific ReportsEpisodic future thinking has become an emerging area of psychological research in recent years as an important factor in predicting learning behavioral engagement.
Fang Wang, Xiaoquan Pan
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Narrative episodic future thinking reduces delay discounting and enhances goal salience in the general population: an online feasibility study [PDF]
Health Psychology and Behavioral MedicineBackground: Delay discounting is the tendency when people choose an immediate smaller reward over a delayed, larger reward in decision-making. Higher delay discounting is associated with maladaptive behaviours that can interfere with long-term goal ...
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Episodic future thinking predicts differences in delay discounting: The mediating role of hippocampal structure [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 A growing body of evidence suggests that engagement in episodic future thinking (EFT) could reduce delay discounting rates. However, little is known about whether individual differences in the ability of EFT are associated with differences in delay ...
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Climate change is statistical, abstract and difficult to comprehend directly. Imagining a specific, personal episode where you experience consequences of climate change in the future (episodic future thinking) may bring climate change closer, thus ...
Simen Bø, Katharina Wolff
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Episodic future thinking in semantic dementia: a cognitive and FMRI study. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Semantic dementia (SD) is characterized by gradual loss of semantic memory. While episodic autobiographical memory seems relatively preserved, behavioral studies suggest that episodic future thinking is impaired. We used fMRI to measure brain activity in
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