ArticleExperimental and clinical psychopharmacology2021
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.
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- Imagining the future can shape the present: A systematic review of the impact of episodic future thinking on substance use outcomes.Psychology of addictive behaviors : journal of the Society of Psychologists in Addictive Behaviors · 2024Pooled it
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- Effects of episodic future thinking on reinforcement pathology during smoking cessation treatment among individuals with substance use disorders.Psychopharmacology · 2022Trial
- Hypothetical food purchase tasks and eating behavior: A systematized review and future directions.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Review
- Rural- and nonrural-specific themes in personalized intervention messages for adults with at-risk alcohol use living in rural areas.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Episodic future thinking modulates delay discounting in individuals with problematic substance use: a narrative review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- Applications of episodic future thinking in patients with chronic diseases: a scoping review.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- A computational mechanism linking momentary craving and decision-making in alcohol drinkers and cannabis users.Nature. Mental health · 2026Article
- Narrative episodic future thinking reduces delay discounting and enhances goal salience in the general population: an online feasibility study.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- 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
- Behavioral therapies targeting reward mechanisms in substance use disorders.Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior · 2024Review
- The Phenotype of Recovery X: Associations between delay discounting, regulatory flexibility, and remission from substance use disorder.Journal of substance use and addiction treatment · 2023Article
- Presentation matters: Effects of cigarette purchase task design on systematic data and purchasing behavior.Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Are the attention checks embedded in delay discounting tasks a valid marker for data quality?Experimental and clinical psychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Can delay discounting predict vaccine hesitancy 4-years later? A study among US young adults.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- Reward and inhibition in obesity and cigarette smoking: Neurobiological overlaps and clinical implications.Physiology & behavior · 2023Review
- Drinking to Cope is Uniquely Associated with Less Specific and Bleaker Future Goal Generation in Young Hazardous Drinkers.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2023Article
- The phenotype of recovery VII: Delay discounting mediates the relationship between time in recovery and recovery progress.Journal of substance abuse treatment · 2022Article
- Comparing Smoking Cessation Interventions among Underserved Patients Referred for Lung Cancer Screening: A Pragmatic Trial Protocol.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2022Article
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Abstract
Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) reduces delay discounting (DD; preference for smaller, immediate rewards) and various maladaptive behaviors. Exploring potential personalization of EFT to optimize its ability to alter DD and demand for unhealthy reinforcers is important for the development of interventions targeting long-term improvement and maintenance of health. In this investigation, using 2 separate studies, we examined the effects of EFT with and without a health goal on rates of discounting, demand, and craving for cigarettes and fast food among cigarette smokers and obese individuals, respectively. Using data collected from Amazon Mechanical Turk (mTurk), Study 1 (
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