Trial reportAppetite2019
Episodic future thinking and grocery shopping online.
Trial report in Appetite, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 38 citations in OpenAlex.
- An equity-oriented systematic review of online grocery shopping among low-income populations: implications for policy and research.Nutrition reviews · 2022Pooled it
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- A story to tell: the role of narratives in reducing delay discounting for people who strongly discount the future.Memory (Hove, England) · 2021Trial
- Mothers' DASH diet adherence and food purchases after week-long episodic future thinking intervention.Appetite · 2020Trial
- 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
- Applications of episodic future thinking in patients with chronic diseases: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- What's in a cue?: Using natural language processing to quantify content characteristics of episodic future thinking in the context of overweight and obesity.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- How can restaurants entice patrons to order environmentally sustainable dishes? Testing new approaches based on hedonic psychology and affective forecasting theory.Journal of sustainable tourism · 2024Article
- Disrupting future discounting: a commentary on an underutilised psychological approach for improving adherence to diet and physical activity interventions.Public health nutrition · 2023Article
- Testing and Optimizing Guided Thinking Tasks to Promote Physical Activity: Protocol for a Randomized Factorial Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Optimizing an mHealth Intervention to Change Food Purchasing Behaviors for Cancer Prevention: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- Effects of 6-month episodic future thinking training on delay discounting, weight loss and HbA1c changes in individuals with prediabetes.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2022Article
- Delay Discounting as a Potential Therapeutic Target for Weight Loss in Breast Cancer Survivors.Cancers · 2022Article
- Putting prospection into practice: Methodological considerations in the use of episodic future thinking to reduce delay discounting and maladaptive health behaviors.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
- Written or drawn episodic future thinking cues improves delay discounting in adults.Learning and motivation · 2021Article
- Setting a goal could help you control: Comparing the effect of health goal versus general episodic future thinking on health behaviors among cigarette smokers and obese individuals.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2021Article
- Choice bundling, unpacked: Observed and predicted effects on intertemporal choice in an additive model of hyperbolic delay discounting.PloS one · 2021Article
- The Role of Parent Self-Regulation in Youth Type 1 Diabetes Management.Current diabetes reports · 2020Review
- An ecological momentary episodic future thinking intervention on mother's weekly food purchases.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2020Article
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Abstract
Grocery shopping shapes the home food environment, which can contribute to the development of obesity. Episodic future thinking (EFT) helps adults make healthier decisions by initiating prospective thinking, which guides one to forego smaller immediate rewards in favor of larger delayed rewards. EFT could help parents improve grocery purchases thereby improving the home food environment and family eating behaviors. The effect of EFT on food shopping was evaluated in two studies with mothers who were overweight/obese and primary household shoppers. In Study 1, 24 mothers were randomized to goal-directed process EFT versus a money saving control. In Study 2, 33 mothers were randomized to goal-directed process EFT, general EFT, or an episodic recent thinking (ERT) control. Following cue generation, participants completed a task where they purchased one week of groceries from an online store. Food purchases were analyzed for calories purchased per family member. In Study 1 the goal-directed process EFT group purchased fewer calories per person (F(1, 23) = 25.16, p < .001; η
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