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Living in the moment: effects of time perspective and emotional valence of episodic thinking on delay discounting.
Behavioral neuroscience - 1 Feb 2014
Lin Henry, Epstein Leonard H
Abstract excerpt
Excessive delay discounting (DD) has been related to various maladaptive behaviors and may stem from a myopic focus on immediate gratification. Neuroimaging studies have shown that episodic future thinking (EFT) -vivid mental simulation of future experiences-may reduce DD by promoting consideration of delayed outcomes. However, the EFT manipulations in these experiments may have induced positive affect, which...
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