Episodic future thinking: Mechanisms and functions

DL Schacter, RG Benoit, KK Szpunar - Current opinion in behavioral …, 2017 - Elsevier
Highlights•Research on episodic future thinking has increased dramatically during the past
decade.•Cognitive studies have begun to separate the contributions of episodic retrieval …

Psychopathology and episodic future thinking: A systematic review and meta-analysis of specificity and episodic detail

DJ Hallford, DW Austin, K Takano, F Raes - Behaviour research and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Episodic future thinking (EFT) refers to the mental simulation of future events that might be
personally-experienced; a crucial mental process in adaptation. Psychiatric disorders are …

On the nature of everyday prospection: A review and theoretical integration of research on mind-wandering, future thinking, and prospective memory

L Kvavilashvili, J Rummel - Review of General Psychology, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …

Impaired capacity for prospection in the dementias–Theoretical and clinical implications

M Irish, P Piolino - British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Prospection, or future thinking, refers to the ability to mentally simulate plausible
events at a future point in time and draws heavily upon the capacity to retrieve …

Spontaneous and deliberate future thinking: A dual process account

S Cole, L Kvavilashvili - Psychological research, 2021 - Springer
In this article, we address an apparent paradox in the literature on mental time travel and
mind-wandering: How is it possible that future thinking is both constructive, yet often …

Individual futures consciousness: Psychology behind the five-dimensional Futures Consciousness scale

S Ahvenharju, F Lalot, M Minkkinen, A Quiamzade - Futures, 2021 - Elsevier
Future consciousness refers to the human capacity to understand, anticipate, prepare for,
and embrace the future. The Futures Consciousness Scale has recently been developed to …

Being future-conscious during a global crisis: The protective effect of heightened Futures Consciousness in the COVID-19 pandemic

F Lalot, D Abrams, S Ahvenharju… - Personality and Individual …, 2021 - Elsevier
Futures Consciousness (FC) refers to the capacity that a person has for understanding,
anticipating, and preparing for the future. In many respects, the COVID-19 pandemic has …

Increasing anticipated and anticipatory pleasure through episodic thinking.

DJ Hallford, H Farrell, E Lynch - Emotion, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Episodic future thinking for positive future events is known to evoke positive affect. We aimed
to assess whether it specifically evokes anticipated and anticipatory pleasure for future …

The functions of prospection–variations in health and disease

A Bulley, M Irish - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Much of human life revolves around anticipating and planning for the future. It has become
increasingly clear that this capacity for prospective cognition is a core adaptive function of …

The natural frequency of human prospective memory increases with age.

RS Gardner, GA Ascoli - Psychology and aging, 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Autobiographical memory (AM), the recollection of past experiences, and prospective
memory (PM), the prospection of future events, are prominent components of subjective life …