Increasing Anticipated and Anticipatory Pleasure through Episodic Thinking

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<p>Episodic future thinking for positive future events is known to evoke positive affect. We aimed to assess whether it specifically evokes anticipated and anticipatory pleasure for future events, and behavioural intention. As a secondary aim, we examined if this differed compared to a condition of thinking of positive past events. In two studies, participants nominated five upcoming positive events, and five posi...

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• Bipolar Disorder
• Catechol O-Methyltransferase
• Emotions
• Inhibition, Psychological
• Memory, Short-Term
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• Receptors, Dopamine D1
• Receptors, Dopamine D2

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10.31234/osf.io/ag2sf