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quality > cognitive quality > phenomenological characteristic of memory > mental time travel > episodic future thought
process > cognitive process > mental imagery > episodic future thought

Preferred term

episodic future thought  

Definition(s)

  • Imaging or simulating future personal events, based on episodic memory.

Broader concept(s)

Related concept(s)

Synonym(s)

  • episodic foresight
  • episodic future-oriented thought
  • episodic future thinking
  • episodic prospection
  • episodic simulation

Belongs to group

Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Addis, D. R., Wong, A. T., & Schacter, D. L. (2007). Remembering the past and imagining the future: Common and distinct neural substrates during event construction and elaboration. Neuropsychologia, 45(7), 1363–1377. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.10.016

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]
  • • Atance, C. M., & O’Neill, D. K. (2001). Episodic future thinking. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5(12), 533-539. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01804-0

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Bulley, A., & Schacter, D. L. (2023). Episodic future thinking, memory, and decision-making. In R. H. Logie, Z. Wen, S. E. Gathercole, N. Cowan, & R. W. Engle (Eds.), Memory in science for society: There is nothing as practical as a good theory (pp. 123–148). Oxford University Press.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Charretier, L., Eustache, F., & Quinette, P. (2022). La projection vers le futur : neuropsychologie, neuro-imagerie et psychopathologie. Annales Médico-psychologiques, revue psychiatrique, 180(1), 60‑65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amp.2021.11.017

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • d’Argembeau, A. (2016). La pensée future épisodique : Entre simulation et contexte autobiographique. Revue de neuropsychologie, Volume 8(1), 55–59. https://doi-org.inshs.bib.cnrs.fr/10.3917/rne.081.0055

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • Hallford, D. J., Austin, D. W., Takano, K., & Raes, F. (2018). Psychopathology and episodic future thinking: A systematic review and meta-analysis of specificity and episodic detail. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 102, 42–51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brat.2018.01.003

    [Study type: meta-analysis / Access: closed]
  • • Miloyan, B., & McFarlane, K. A. (2019). The measurement of episodic foresight: A systematic review of assessment instruments. Cortex, 117, 351–370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2018.08.018

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Morton, C., & MacLeod, A. K. (2023). Vividness of imagery and affective response to episodic memories and episodic future thoughts: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Memory, 31(8), 1098–1110. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2023.2224609

    [Study type: meta-analysis / Access: open]
  • • Nyhout, A., & Mahy, C. E. V. (2023). Episodic thought in development: On the relation between memory and future thinking. Developmental Review, 70, 101103. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2023.101103

    [Study type: literature review / Access: open]
  • • Robins, S. K. (2022). Episodic memory is not for the future. In A. Sant’Anna, C. J. McCarroll, & K. Michaelian (Eds.), Current controversies in philosophy of memory (pp. 166–184). Routledge.

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Schacter, D. L., Benoit, R. G., & Szpunar, K. K. (2017). Episodic future thinking: mechanisms and functions. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 17, 41–50. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2017.06.002

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Schubert, T., Eloo, R., Scharfen, J., & Morina, N. (2020). How imagining personal future scenarios influences affect: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Psychology Review, 75, 101811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2019.101811

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Szpunar, K. K. (2010). Episodic future thought: An emerging concept. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(2), 142–162. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691610362350

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Has study method(s)

Dataset citation(s)

  • • Bø, S., & Wolff, K. (2019, October 4). Episodic future thinking and risk perception. https://osf.io/ygptx/
  • • Bø, S., & Wolff, K. (2020, February 24). Episodic future thinking and climate risk. https://osf.io/h3vqb/
  • • Branch, J. (2021, September 28). Experimental Design as a Retrieval Method for Assessing the Phenomenological Characteristics of Episodic Memories, Episodic Future Thoughts, and Episodic Counterfactual Thoughts. https://osf.io/6z5ks/
  • • D’Argembeau, A. (2020, June 19). The temporal compression of events during episodic future thinking. https://osf.io/uny8r/
  • • Hollis-Hansen, K. (2019, March 15). Improvements in episodic future thinking methodology: Establishing a standardized episodic thinking control. doi:10.17605/OSF.IO/6NSQB

In other languages

  • pensée future épisodique

    French

  • anticipation épisodique
  • pensée épisodique future
  • projection de soi dans le futur
  • projection future
  • projection vers le futur
  • prospection épisodique
  • simulation épisodique

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