The ability to imagine and simulate events that may happen in the future has been studied in
several related but independent research areas (eg, episodic future thinking, mind …

Humans have evolved mechanisms for the detection and management of possible threats in
order to abate their negative consequences for fitness. Internally generated ('detached') …

Prospection, or thinking about the future, is currently a topic of significant interdisciplinary
research interest. Episodic foresight is considered a complex form of prospection that …

Purpose The current study aims to understand inter-generational differences and similarities
in the perception of illness and the available resources employed by children with cancer …

Previous research has indicated that adults have a future-oriented cognitive bias, one
illustration of which is their tendency to report more thoughts about the future than the past …

Children's future-oriented cognition has become a well-established area of research over
the last decade. Future-oriented cognition encompasses a range of processes, including …

A number of striking temporal asymmetries have been observed in the way that adults think
about the past and the future: experiences in the future tend to be more valued than those in …

" The Problem of Consciousness This chapter will introduce you to consciousness and its
most important characteristics. We will look at definitions of consciousness, and examine …

Imagining personal future events is associated with well-being, but the nature and direction
of this relationship are unclear. This study investigated whether imagining episodic future …

Unlike temporally symmetric inferences about simple sequences, inferences about our own
lives are asymmetric: we are better able to infer the past than the future, since we remember …