On the relationship between unprompted thought and affective well-being: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

JWY Kam, AY Wong, RF Thiemann, F Hasan… - Psychological …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
There is a growing recognition that thoughts often arise independently of external demands.
These thoughts can span from reminiscing your last vacation to contemplating career goals …

How does tourism memory affect revisit decisions? The mediating role of episodic future thinking

Z Zhao, D Shi, Z Huang, X Liu - Tourism Management Perspectives, 2023 - Elsevier
Although scholars have explored how memorable tourism experiences affect tourists'
behaviour, little research has considered the role of tourism memory from an …

Simulating the best and worst of times: The powers and perils of emotional simulation

V Wardell, MD Grilli, DJ Palombo - Memory, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
We are remarkably capable of simulating events that we have never experienced. These
simulated events often paint an emotional picture to behold, such as the best and worst …

Imagine how good that feels: The impact of anticipated positive emotions on motivation for reward activities

M Heise, J Werthmann, F Murphy… - Cognitive Therapy and …, 2022 - Springer
Background Disease burden and unsatisfactory treatment outcomes call for innovation in
treatments of depression. Prospective mental imagery, ie future-directed voluntary imagery …

Future-oriented cognition: links to mental health problems and mental wellbeing in preschool-aged and primary-school-aged children

J Marks, S Schneider, B Voigt - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Future-oriented cognition plays a manifold role for adults' mental health. The present study
aimed to investigate the relationship between future-oriented cognition and mental health in …

The para-hippocampal–medial frontal gyrus functional connectivity mediates the relationship between dispositional optimism and procrastination

Y Liu, F Zhou, R Zhang, T Feng - Behavioural Brain Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Procrastination is a prevalent phenomenon throughout the world, which can lead to worse
consequences across life domains, such as academic performance, mental health, and …

A framework for understanding mental imagery in design cognition research

RL Macfie, LA Hay, P Rodgers - Proceedings of the Design Society, 2023 - cambridge.org
Mental imagery is the experience of perceiving an object within one's own mind and is a
subjective experience, leading to difficulties in the research and understanding of the …

Episodic future thinking and psychopathology: A focus on depression and suicide risk

RJ Nam, NJ Lowry, OC Lawrence, LJ Novotny… - Current opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Episodic future thinking (EFT), the ability to imagine future autobiographical events, is both
an everyday and clinically significant cognitive process. With a focus on depression and …

Future self-imagery of young people in Sweden during the COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory mixed methods analysis

L Singh, CJ Rathbone, ML Moulds, EA Holmes - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
Global restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic significantly limited the capacity
to plan for the future. Little is known about young people's future self-images and the impact …

Stability and malleability of emotional autobiographical memories

V Wardell, DJ Palombo - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2024 - nature.com
Despite the vivid and convincing detail with which people can recollect emotional
experiences from their past, emotional memory is malleable. As time passes, the memories …