ReviewFrontiers in public health2022
Putting prospection into practice: Methodological considerations in the use of episodic future thinking to reduce delay discounting and maladaptive health behaviors.
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- Episodic Future Thinking as an Intervention for Alcohol Use Disorder: Effects on Delay Discounting and Real-World Alcohol Consumption.Research square · 2026Article
- 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
- Scoping review of episodic future thinking and delay discounting observed in Alzheimer's disease, depression, and PTSD.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- Episodic future thinking modulates delay discounting in individuals with problematic substance use: a narrative review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Review
- A virtual-reality based intervention on thoughts of the future self to reduce negative affect, depression, and suicidal ideation: protocol for a feasibility and acceptability randomized controlled pilot trial (FutureU for Mental Health).Pilot and feasibility studies · 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
- Recent Experience Affects Delay Discounting: Evidence across Temporal Framing, Signs, and Magnitudes.Perspectives on behavior science · 2024Article
- Acceptability and feasibility of a mobile behavioral economic health intervention to reduce alcohol use in adults in rural areas.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2024Article
- Reinforcement Learning Interventions on Boundedly Rational Human Agents in Frictionful Tasks.Proceedings of the ... International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems : AAMAS. International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems · 2024Article
- Examining the association between delay discounting, delay aversion and physical activity in Chinese adults with type-2 diabetes mellitus.World journal of diabetes · 2024Article
- Episodic Future Thinking: A Behavioral Intervention to Promote Weight Loss in Breast Cancer Survivors (Alliance A21-Pilot10).JCO oncology advancesArticle
- Evaluating Future Thinking Priming Effects on Delay Discounting Among Young Adult Drinkers.International journal of psychological researchArticle
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Abstract
In recent years, episodic future thinking (EFT) has emerged as a promising behavioral intervention to reduce delay discounting or maladaptive health behaviors; however, considerable methodological heterogeneity in methods for eliciting engagement in EFT has been observed in prior research. In this narrative review, we briefly describe methods for generating EFT cues, the content of EFT cues, common control conditions for experiments utilizing EFT, and considerations for cue delivery and implementation. Where possible, we make suggestions for current best practices in each category while identifying gaps in knowledge and potential areas of future research. Finally, we conclude by using the NIH Stage model to better frame the current state of the literature on EFT and propose gaps to be addressed if EFT is to be both an efficacious and effective behavioral intervention.
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