Academic Abstract Humans frequently engage in mental time travel, reflecting on the past
and anticipating the future. Although these processes may seem similar, research …

Philosophers vigorously debate the rationality of hedonic bias toward the future: a
systematic preference for pleasurable experiences to be future and painful experiences to …

Future-bias is the preference, all else being equal, for positive states of affairs to be located
in the future not the past, and for negative states of affairs to be located in the past not the …

It has been hypothesized that our believing that, or its seeming to us as though, the world is
in some way dynamical partially explains (and perhaps rationalizes) future-bias. Recent …

Empirical evidence shows that people have multiple time-biases. One is near-bias; another
is future-bias. Philosophical theorising about these biases often proceeds on two …

Young drivers are over-represented in collision statistics partly because pre-licensure
training does not fully provide young drivers with all the necessary skills to be safe on the …

We will say that an agent is biased toward the future if they tend to prefer that positively
valenced events be in their future and that negatively valenced events be in their past. When …

Empirical work has lately confirmed what many philosophers have taken to be true: people
are 'biased toward the future'. All else being equal, we usually prefer to have positive …

All else being equal, most of us typically prefer to have positive experiences in the future
rather than the past and negative experiences in the past rather than the future. Recent …

Until recently, philosophers have supposed that people exhibit a first-person hedonic bias
toward the future, but that their non-hedonic and third-person preferences are time-neutral …