Trial reportEating behaviors2016
Episodic future thinking reduces eating in a food court.
Trial report in Eating behaviors, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06119503 (Peer Delivered Episodic Future Thinking to Improve MOUD Treatment Engagement Among Returning Citizens - A Randomized Controlled Trial), which is not on this map. Cited by 66 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Peer Delivered Episodic Future Thinking to Improve MOUD Treatment Engagement Among Returning Citizens - A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
66 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Mobile health (m-health) smartphone interventions for adolescents and adults with overweight or obesity.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Comprehensive cognitive training improves anthropometric measures in people with excess weight: the TRAINEP randomized controlled trial.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Trial
- Is episodic future thinking effective in mitigating the influence of time preference in time trade-off?The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2025Trial
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- Initial evaluation of domain-specific episodic future thinking on delay discounting and cannabis use.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Episodic Future Thinking about Smoking-Related Illness: A Preliminary Investigation of Effects on Delay Discounting, Cigarette Craving, and Cigarette Demand.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Brief Online Negative Affect Focused Functional Imagery Training Improves 2-Week Drinking Outcomes in Hazardous Student Drinkers: a Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Trial
- Future thinking to decrease real-world drinking in alcohol use disorder: Repairing reinforcer pathology in a randomized proof-of-concept trial.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Brief inductions in episodic past or future thinking: effects on episodic detail and problem-solving.Cognitive processing · 2022Trial
- Internal Validity of Two Promising Methods of Altering Temporal Orientation among Cigarette Smokers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Trial
- Bleak present, bright future: II. Combined effects of episodic future thinking and scarcity on delay discounting in adults at risk for type 2 diabetes.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Trial
- Mothers' DASH diet adherence and food purchases after week-long episodic future thinking intervention.Appetite · 2020Trial
- A web-based episodic specificity and future thinking session modulates delay discounting in cannabis users.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2020Trial
- Functional imagery training versus motivational interviewing for weight loss: a randomised controlled trial of brief individual interventions for overweight and obesity.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2019Trial
- Episodic future thinking and grocery shopping online.Appetite · 2019Trial
- Unstuck in time: episodic future thinking reduces delay discounting and cigarette smoking.Psychopharmacology · 2016Trial
- A Proof-of-Concept Pilot Test of a Behavioral Intervention to Improve Adherence to Dietary Recommendations for Cancer Prevention.Cancer control : journal of the Moffitt Cancer CenterTrial
- Using episodic future thinking (or not?) to optimize decision-making.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Review
- Written or drawn episodic future thinking cues improves delay discounting in children.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2026Article
- Digital Episodic Future Thinking Intervention (Luminaut): Co-Design and Iterative Development Study.JMIR human factors · 2026Article
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Abstract
Episodic future thinking (EFT) is the psychological process of vividly imagining a future event, and this process has been shown to reduce overeating in the laboratory. To assess the efficacy of EFT in the natural environment, twenty-nine overweight or obese women who wanted to improve their eating habits were randomly assigned to one of two smartphone-implemented interventions--EFT or control episodic recent thinking (ERT)--while they ate dinner in a public food court. Results showed a reduction in consumption of total calories, a reduction in percent calories from fat, and an increase in percent calories from protein for EFT versus ERT. These data suggest EFT may be used to modify eating habits in natural eating environments, and may show potential as a component of behavioral obesity interventions.
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