Highlights•Research on episodic future thinking has increased dramatically during the past
decade.•Cognitive studies have begun to separate the contributions of episodic retrieval …

During the past few years, there has been a dramatic increase in research examining the
role of memory in imagination and future thinking. This work has revealed striking similarities …

With the development of functional neuroimaging, important progress has been made in
identifying the brain regions involved in self-related processing. One of the most consistent …

Episodic future thinking (EFT) refers to the mental simulation of future events that might be
personally-experienced; a crucial mental process in adaptation. Psychiatric disorders are …

Why states sometimes risk their material interests and even physical security to keep a
certain identity narrative going? Think of Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank …

Although humans have a remarkable capacity to recall a wealth of detail from the past, there
are marked interindividual differences in the quantity and quality of our mnemonic …

Delay discounting (DD) is the preference for smaller immediate rewards over larger delayed
rewards. Research shows episodic future thinking (EFT), or mentally simulating future …

Presenting a neuroscientifically aware approach to art therapy. Art Therapy and the
Neuroscience of Relationships, Creativity, and Resiliency offers a comprehensive …

While the ubiquity and importance of narratives for human adaptation is widely recognized,
there is no integrative framework for understanding the roles of narrative in human …

Research on future‐oriented mental time travel (FMTT) is highly active yet somewhat unruly.
I believe this is due, in large part, to the complexity of both the tasks used to test FMTT and …