Add to ORKGWhat do you expect to be doing in five seconds? Five months? Five decades? Thinking about the future is a form of mental time travel at which humans are uniquely skilled. Psychologists call it prospection or future-mindedness, and some have argued it offers an invaluable framework for understanding topics ranging from perception, cognition, imagination, and memory to free will and consciousness itself.
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89497/1/j.2164-4918.1975.tb05227.x.pd
How is it that individuals conceive of the future? What does a survey of relevant psychological theo...
Children's future-oriented cognition has become a well-established area of research over the last de...
© 2020 The Authors. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published by Sage Publicati...
Mental time travel refers to the ability of an organism to project herself backward and forward in t...
In the present, the past is more knowable than the future—but people think far more about the future...
A recent survey revealed that most people do not think about the far future. Most respondents rarely...
Futures Thinking can be defined as a strategic approach to explore and critically consider future sc...
A remarkable feature of the human mind is its capacity to momentarily disengage from the immediate ...
Spontaneous future cognition denotes the human capacity to “pre-experience” possible events in one’s...
Much of our behaviour in the present is based on our memory for the past and our imagination of the ...
In a dynamic world, mechanisms allowing prediction of future situations can provide a selective adva...
Despite the growing interest in future-oriented cognition in various areas of psychology, there is s...
Imagining future events and adjusting current behavior accordingly is a hallmark of human cognition....
peer reviewedImagining future events is a crucial cognitive process in adaptation, but impairments h...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89497/1/j.2164-4918.1975.tb05227.x.pd
How is it that individuals conceive of the future? What does a survey of relevant psychological theo...
Children's future-oriented cognition has become a well-established area of research over the last de...
© 2020 The Authors. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published by Sage Publicati...
Mental time travel refers to the ability of an organism to project herself backward and forward in t...
In the present, the past is more knowable than the future—but people think far more about the future...
A recent survey revealed that most people do not think about the far future. Most respondents rarely...
Futures Thinking can be defined as a strategic approach to explore and critically consider future sc...
A remarkable feature of the human mind is its capacity to momentarily disengage from the immediate ...
Spontaneous future cognition denotes the human capacity to “pre-experience” possible events in one’s...
Much of our behaviour in the present is based on our memory for the past and our imagination of the ...
In a dynamic world, mechanisms allowing prediction of future situations can provide a selective adva...
Despite the growing interest in future-oriented cognition in various areas of psychology, there is s...
Imagining future events and adjusting current behavior accordingly is a hallmark of human cognition....
peer reviewedImagining future events is a crucial cognitive process in adaptation, but impairments h...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/89497/1/j.2164-4918.1975.tb05227.x.pd
How is it that individuals conceive of the future? What does a survey of relevant psychological theo...
Children's future-oriented cognition has become a well-established area of research over the last de...