The power of episodic memories is that they bring a past moment into the present, providing
opportunities for us to recall details of the experiences, reframe or update the memory, and …

Many behaviors posing significant risks to public health are characterized by repeated
decisions to forego better long-term outcomes in the face of immediate temptations. Steeply …

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and
psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, autonoetic character …

Humans are capable of imagining future rewards and the contexts in which they may be
obtained. Functionally, intertemporal choices between smaller but immediate and larger but …

Intertemporal choices are ubiquitous: people often have to choose between outcomes
realized at different times. Although it is generally believed that people have stable …

In everyday decision-making, individuals make trade-offs between short-term and long-term
benefits or costs. Depending on many factors, individuals may choose to wait for larger …

Episodic future thinking (EFT) denotes our capacity to imagine prospective events. It has
been suggested to promote farsighted decisions that entail a trade-off between short-term …

This review focuses on the issue of poverty affecting economic decision-making. By critically
evaluating existing studies, the authors propose a structural model detailing the cognitive …

In the present study, we investigated the effect of medial temporal lobe (MTL) damage on
human decision making in the context of reward‐based intertemporal choice. During …

Many fundamental choices in life are intertemporal: they involve trade-offs between sooner
and later outcomes. In recent years there has been a surge of interest into how people make …