The impact of past temporal discounting on mental health: Opposite effects of positive and negative event aftertastes over time: Aftertaste and time.

Bowen Hu, Shunmin Zhang, Peiwei Liu, Feng Zhou, Tingyong Feng

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Article in International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHP. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Bowen HuFaculty of Psychology, Southwest University, China.

Shunmin ZhangDepartment of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University, China.

Peiwei LiuDepartment of Psychology, University of Florida, United States.

Feng ZhouFaculty of Psychology, Southwest University, China.

Tingyong FengFaculty of Psychology, Southwest University, China.

Southwest University · CNUniversity of Florida · USZhejiang University · CN

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Abstract

Background: Time frees people from bereavement, but also fades childhood happiness, these dynamics can be understood through the framework of past temporal discounting (PTD), which refers to the gradual decrease in affect intensity elicited by recalling positive or negative events over time. Despite its importance, measuring PTD has been challenging, and its impact on real-life outcomes, such as mental health remains unknown. Method: Here, we employed a longitudinal tracking approach to measure PTD in healthy participants ( Results: The results of Bayesian multilevel modeling indicated that the affect intensity for positive and negative events discounted over time at a gradually decelerating rate. Furthermore, we found that maintaining good mental health heavily depended on rapid PTD of negative events and slow PTD of positive events. Conclusions: These results provide a comprehensive characterization PTD and demonstrate its importance in maintaining mental health.

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AffectFading affect biasLongitudinal trackingMental healthTemporal discounting

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PMID38450251

DOI10.1016/j.ijchp.2024.100453

PMCPMC10915560

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