Trial reportQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)2022
Imagining emotional events benefits future-oriented decisions.
Trial report in Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- The Genoeconomics of Impulsive Intertemporal Choice: A Critical Review.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2026Review
- The impact of state and trait general and social anxiety on theory of mind.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Depressive symptoms and intertemporal decision-making in adolescents: the indirect role of future self-continuity.Australian journal of psychology · 2026Article
- Real-life Affective Forecasting in Young Adults with High Social Anhedonia: An Experience Sampling Study.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2025Article
- Waiting for it: Anorexia Risk, Future Orientation, and Intertemporal Discounting.Research square · 2024Article
- Does sadness bring myopia: an intertemporal choice experiment with college students.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Using an episodic specificity induction to improve children's future thinking.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
How does imagining future events-whether positive or negative-influence our choices in the present? Prior work has shown the simulation of hypothetical future events, dubbed episodic future thinking, can alter the propensity to engage in delay discounting (the tendency to devalue future rewards) and does so in a valence-specific manner. Some research shows that positive episodic future thinking reduces delay discounting, whereas negative future thinking augments it. However, more recent research indicates that both positive and negative episodic future thinking reduce delay discounting, suggesting an effect of episodic future thinking that is independent of valence. In this study, we sought to replicate and extend these latter findings. Here, participants (
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