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episodic future thinking CONCEPT
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The capacity to imagine or simulate experiences that might occur in one's personal future (from Benoit, R.G., Schacter, D.L., & Szpunar, K.K. (2017). Episodic Future Thinking: Mechanisms and Functions. Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 17, 41-50)

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Asserted relationships to other concepts

episodic future thinking
is a kind of
  • prospection
    • episodic future thinking
    is a part of
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    are a kind of
    episodic future thinking
  • episodic planning
  • episodic intention
  • episodic prediction
  • episodic simulation
    • are a part of
    episodic future thinking
    No associations

    Tasks that are asserted to measure episodic future thinking

    Task Contrast Measure
    episodic recombination paradigm
    • future

    Term BIBLIOGRAPHY

    Episodic future thinking: mechanisms and functions
    Daniel L Schacter, Roland G Benoit and Karl K Szpunar
    Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
    2017-10-01