Structure and dynamics of personal and national event cognition.

JH Liu, KK Szpunar - Journal of Applied Research in Memory and …, 2023‏ - psycnet.apa.org
The psychological and sociological literature indicate that personal events are remembered
and imagined as more positive than negative, whereas public events are remembered and …

Collectives closer to the self are anticipated to have a brighter future: Self-enhancement in collective cognition.

D Berntsen, DC Rubin - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2024‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Collective future thinking is a budding research field concerned with the act of imagining
possible events in the future of a collective—typically one's nation. Prior research has shown …

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 …

Collective future thinking in Cultural Dynamics

Y Kashima, PG Bain, JW Fernando… - European Review of …, 2025‏ - Taylor & Francis
Humans think about the future to act in the present, not only personally, but also collectively.
Collective future thinking (CFT) is an act of imagining a future on behalf of a collective. This …

When the personal and the collective intersects: Memory, future thinking, and perceived agency during the COVID-19 pandemic.

MN Topçu, W Hirst - Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2024‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Do collective crises have an impact on the characteristics of mental time travel for individuals
and collectives? The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique context to address this …

A preliminary experimental test of the crossed influences between the valence of collective memory and collective future thinking

O Ionescu, JL Tavani, J Collange - Memory, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
This research experimentally examined the crossed influences between the emotional
valence of collective memory and collective future thinking. As remembering the past and …

Implicit intertemporal trajectories in cognitive representations of the self and nation

JK Yamashiro, JH Liu, RJ Zhang - Memory & Cognition, 2023‏ - Springer
Individual selves and the collectives to which people belong can be mentally represented as
following intertemporal trajectories—progress, decline, or stasis. These studies examined …

The Good Old Days and the Scary Future Ones

O Ionescu, J Collange, JL Tavani - Social Psychology, 2023‏ - econtent.hogrefe.com
Building on the social psychology literature on collective memory, we tested if national
nostalgia fosters collective angst through greater perceived societal anomie among French …

Things have changed but now they'll stay the same: Generational differences and mental time travel for collective remembering of national historic events.

S Umanath, C Hou, A Corning… - Journal of Applied …, 2023‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Collective memories refer to a group's shared representation of the past. They are slow to
change over time but do change. To investigate such potential shifts, representative samples …

Valence and perceived control in personal and collective future thinking: the relation to psychological well-being

N Mert, Q Wang - Cognition and Emotion, 2024‏ - Taylor & Francis
Prior studies have shown that people imagine their personal future to be more positive than
their country's collective future. The present research extends the nascent literature by …