Affective forecasting–estimations of future emotional reactions–is an important aspect of
future thinking that informs judgement and decision making. Biases in affective forecasting …

This best-selling textbook, written by award-winning educator and past president of the
American Psychological Association, Diane F. Halpern, applies theory and research from …

Imagining future events and adjusting current behavior accordingly is a hallmark of human
cognition. The development of such episodic foresight is attracting increasing research …

The moral self-concept reflects the view of oneself in terms of moral behavior and has been
proposed to predict actual behavior. Theories also suggest emotions and emotion …

When making moral judgments of past actions, adults often think counterfactually about what
could have been done differently. Considerable evidence suggests that counterfactual …

This study examined future‐oriented behavior in children (3–6 years; N= 193) from three
diverse societies—one industrialized Western city and two small, geographically isolated …

When people ask me what I study, answering them has always posed a greater challenge
than it should. It'sa perfectly fair question, of course. People hear that I study the mind and …

People's emotional states are influenced not just by events occurring in the present but also
by how events have unfolded in the past and how they are likely to unfold in the future. To …

Envisioning the future and how you may feel (affective episodic future thinking [EFT]) helps
adults to act in favor for their future self, according to manifold experiments. The current …

In contrast to extensive research on the emergence of emotion understanding during early
childhood, less work has focused on improvement and expansion in how children reason …