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Episodic future thinking reduces temporal discounting in healthy adolescents.
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Recalling and Anticipating Specific Positive Events to Boost Resilience in Adolescents
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26 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of the RASPERA project: recalling and anticipating specific positive events to boost resilience in adolescents.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Short-sighted decision-making by those not vaccinated against COVID-19.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Episodic future thinking predicts differences in delay discounting: The mediating role of hippocampal structure.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Written or drawn episodic future thinking cues improves delay discounting in adults.Learning and motivation · 2021Article
- The Effects of Time Framing on Compliance to Hypothetical Social-Distancing Policies Related to COVID-19.Behavior and social issues · 2021Article
- The Role of User Behaviour in Improving Cyber Security Management.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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- Is it time? Episodic imagining and the discounting of delayed and probabilistic rewards in young and older adults.Cognition · 2020Article
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Abstract
Episodic Future Thinking has proven efficient in reducing impulsive behavior in several adult populations. Whether it also has a beneficial impact on decision making in adolescents is not known. Here the impact of episodic future thinking on discounting behavior was investigated in a sample of healthy adolescents (n = 44, age range 13-16 years). Discounting behavior in trials including episodic future thinking was significantly less impulsive than in control trials (t = 2.74, p = .009, dz = .44). In a subsample we controlled for executive function, alcohol use and developmental measures. Neither executive function nor alcohol use but developmental measures explained variability in the effect of episodic future thinking. These findings reveal that episodic future thinking can improve adolescent decision making while the effect is to some degree modulated by developmental measures.
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