Beyond the episodic–semantic continuum: the multidimensional model of mental representations

DR Addis, KK Szpunar - Philosophical Transactions B, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Tulving's concept of mental time travel (MTT), and the related distinction of episodic and
semantic memory, have been highly influential contributions to memory research, resulting …

When the personal and the collective intersects: Memory, future thinking, and perceived agency during the COVID-19 pandemic.

MN Topçu, W Hirst - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Do collective crises have an impact on the characteristics of mental time travel for individuals
and collectives? The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique context to address this …

Collectives closer to the self are anticipated to have a brighter future: Self-enhancement in collective cognition.

D Berntsen, DC Rubin - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Collective future thinking is a budding research field concerned with the act of imagining
possible events in the future of a collective—typically one's nation. Prior research has shown …

The improvement default: People presume improvement when lacking information

JG Hillman, JP Antoun… - Personality and Social …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
People erroneously think that things they know little about improve over time. We propose
that, due to salient cultural narratives, improvement is a highly accessible expectation that …

Collaborative imagination synchronizes representations of the future and fosters social connection in the present

Z Fowler, DJ Palombo, CR Madan… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
From close friends to people on a first date, imagining a shared future appears fundamental
to relationships. Yet, no previous research has conceptualized the act of imagination as a …

Things have changed but now they'll stay the same: Generational differences and mental time travel for collective remembering of national historic events.

S Umanath, C Hou, A Corning… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Collective memories refer to a group's shared representation of the past. They are slow to
change over time but do change. To investigate such potential shifts, representative samples …

Varieties of frames structuring collective temporal thought.

JK Yamashiro, E Pashkov - 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Cultural scripts can help structure collective remembering and future thought. This schematic
scaffolding may help explain empirical patterns such as emotional biases in memory and …

Scripts, agents, and interpretations: Delving into the valence biases of mental time travel.

W Hirst, MN Topçu - 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Comments on the original article by Liu and Szpunar (see record 2023-29014-001). As
reviewed in Liu and Szpunar, psychologists have recently explored the close connection …

On the relations between personal and national event cognition: Theoretical and methodological considerations.

KK Szpunar, JH Liu - 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The way personal and collective event cognition are alike, differ from, and interact with one
another is drawing considerable attention from researchers across several disciplines …

Psychological Mechanisms of Economic Optimism amid the Crisis

TA Nestik - Studies on Russian Economic Development, 2024 - Springer
The article analyzes the impact of economic crises on the psychological well-being of
individuals, as well as the role played by indicators of the psycho-emotional state of society …