Future-oriented thought, a projection of the self into the future to pre-experience an event,
has been linked to default mode network (DMN). Previous studies showed that the DMN was …

A rapidly growing number of studies indicate that imagining or simulating possible future
events depends on much of the same neural machinery as does remembering past events …

Self-affirmation theory posits that people are motivated to maintain a positive self-view and
that threats to perceived self-competence are met with resistance. When threatened, self …

We spend much of our daily lives imagining how we can reach future goals and what will
happen when we attain them. Despite the prevalence of such goal-directed simulations …

This review integrates cognitive, socioemotional, and neuroimaging perspectives on self-
development. Neural correlates of key processes implicated in personal and social identity …

The self is experienced differently in depression. It is infused with pervasive low mood, and
structured by negative self-related thoughts. The concept of the self has been difficult to …

It has recently been suggested that brain areas crucial for mentalizing, including the medial
prefrontal cortex (mPFC), are not activated exclusively during mentalizing about the …

Recollecting autobiographical memories of personal past experiences is an integral part of
our everyday lives and relies on a distributed set of brain regions. Their occurrence …

Episodic future thinking allows humans to mentally simulate virtually infinite future
possibilities, yet this device is fundamentally goal-directed and should not be equated with …

Objective In this paper, we examine the relationship between episodic foresight and anxiety
from an evolutionary perspective, proposing that together they confer an advantage for …