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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"future thinking"”.
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Episodic Future Thinking in Young Children: Considering Body Mass and Memory
… obesity treatments is the use of Episodic Future Thinking (EFT), which is the ability to think of the future based on the present moment or past experiences, and the role of oneself in these episodes or experiences. Additionally, previous literature in EFT has begun to examine the effects …
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Future thinking and medicine adherence: a study of typically developing and chronically ill adolescents
Future thinking is thought to play a fundamental role in guiding adaptive, futureoriented behaviour across the life span (Michaelian, Klein, & Szpunar, 2016; Schacter, Benoit, & Szpunar, 2017; Seligman, Railton, Baumeister, & Sripada, 2013; Taylor, Pham, Rivkin, & Armor, 1998), and is considered to …
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Overcoming Present Bias in Engineering Design and Construction with Future Thinking and Generative AI
… leading to increased cost of remediation in the future. This dissertation explores how mental visualization through future thinking and the use of generative AI tools can help reduce present bias during early-stage design tasks. Three experimental conditions were tested: present thinking …
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The Effect of Episodic Future Thinking on a Novel Measure of Behavioral Economic Demand for Exercise
… In study two, we examine the effect of episodic future thinking (EFT; vivid, personalized prospection of future events) in adults not meeting physical activity guidelines (n = 127) on demand for exercise and delay discounting (sensitivity to delayed rewards). We observed reduced delay discounting …
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Univariate and Multivariate fMRI Investigations of Delay Discounting and Episodic Future Thinking in Alcohol Use Disorder
… such as AUD are often unable to plan for the future and are trapped in a narrow temporal window, resulting in short-term, impulsive decision making. Episodic future thinking (EFT) or the ability to project oneself into the future and pre-experience an event, is a rapidly growing area of …
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Weaving the Past into an Imagined Future: Episodic Future Thinking Relies on Working Memory as a Cognitive Interface with Episodic Memory
… reveals that episodic memory and episodic future thinking (EFT) share component processes. Much less is known about the relationship between EFT and working memory (WM) processes. We hypothesized that WM capacity might provide a crucial componential cognitive role during EFT by supporting …
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Novel ways to measure future-oriented cognition: Using parent-report measures and open-ended responses to explore young children’s future thinking development
Future-oriented cognition encompasses a set of key abilities that children must develop for successful functioning in daily life including, saving, prospective memory, episodic foresight, planning, and delay of gratification. These future thinking abilities are supported by memory systems (e.g., …
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The influence and manipulation of resting-state brain networks in alcohol use disorder
… brain, such as altering the decision-making and future thinking capacities, mirror the effects of chronic alcohol use. Therefore, interventions that can address these shortcomings may be useful for reducing the negative effects of alcohol use disorder in combination with other therapies. The …
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Specificity, Emotional Valence, and the Relationship between the Past and the Future in Depression
… that remembering the past and imagining the future rely on common underlying cognitive and neural processes, with both abilities involving retrieval of autobiographical memory (AM) and being self-referential in nature. These processes are also closely related to other features of subjective …
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The Effect of Episodic Future Thought on Delay Discounting, Outcome Expectancies, and Alcohol Use among Risky College Drinkers
… one of which involves utilizing prospective thinking about future autobiographical events and is termed Episodic Future Thinking (Atance and ONeill, 2001). Episodic future thinking (EFT) has been demonstrated in previous studies to be effective in reducing delay discounting relative to a …
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Assessing the Leadership Potential of Applicants to CACREP Accredited Doctoral Programs
… charisma) versus leadership processes (e.g., future-thinking orientation) factor into the way faculty members assess leadership potential. Participants were randomly assigned one of four study-created vignettes that described a hypothetical doctoral program applicant with varying levels of …
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A cognitive approach to spatial patterning in literary narrative
… neurological processes, specifically, episodic future thinking and language production - it is further argued here that the patterns are not interfered with by memory and language - they are maintained by them. Using the insights gained from these neural relationships this study applies these …
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Design Futures : An Investigation into the Role of Futures Thinking in Design.
Designers consider the future as an intrinsic aspect of the design process yet, there has been limited academic investigation of the approaches designers employ to create next-next generation products and services. The central aim of this thesis is to investigate the role of futures thinking in …
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An exploration of reception class teachers’ experiences of supporting children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in the first year of mainstream school.
… of their experiences which can be used to guide future thinking around support for teachers in this position. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to shape an exploration of the teachers’ accounts resulting in the identification of key themes across the group. Two overarching …
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Testing the Reinforcer Pathology Theory: A New Insight into Novel Targets for Drug Addiction
… the effect of remotely delivered Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) narratives (expands the temporal window) on real-world alcohol consumption among individuals with alcohol use disorder (AUD). Together, these investigations supported the Reinforcer Pathology theory and demonstrated its …
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Cross-species comparisons of the retrosplenial cortex in primates: Through time and neuropil space
… conscious of both past experiences and possible future scenarios. Behavioral studies have demonstrated that some non-human animals are capable of episodic-like memory, yet there exists no scientific consensus on the extent of memory abilities, including complex future thinking or planning, among …
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A Comparative Analysis of the Children's Future Orientation Scale Ratings of Traumatized Urban Youth with and without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
This study examined the future orientation, or attitudes about the future, of traumatized youth with and without Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) relative to the future orientation of a non-traumatized comparison group. Participants included youth between 6 and 17 years of age who were …
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Natural Language Processing for Behavior Change and Health Improvement
… immediate rewards over delayed ones. Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) is an intervention designed to reduce delay discounting by engaging individuals in vivid mental simulations of future events, thereby influencing decision-making and emotional well-being. Participants generate descriptions of …
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