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Below is a list of publications listed by published date.
Published: April,
2016
A heart and a mind: Self-distancing facilitates the association between heart rate variability, and wise reasoning
Journal:
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Published: April,
2016
The description-experience gap in risky choice in nonhuman primates
Journal:
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
Published: February,
2016
Time discounting and time preference in animals: A critical review
Journal:
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
Published: December,
2015
When can imagining the self increase willingness to help others? Investigating whether the self-referential nature of episodic simulation fosters prosociality
Journal:
Social Cognition
Published: October,
2015
The tripartite foundations of temporal psychological distance: Metaphors, ecology, and teleology
Journal:
Social and Personality Psychology Compass
Published: September,
2015
The shadow of the future promotes cooperation in a repeated prisoner’s dilemma for children
Journal:
Scientific Reports
Published: June,
2015
Depression and prospection
Journal:
British Journal of Clinical Psychology
Published: March,
2015
Extracting human temporal orientation from Facebook language
Journal:
NAACL-2015: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Published: April,
2014
Remembering the past to envision the future in middle childhood: Developmental linkages between prospection and episodic memory
Journal:
Cognitive Development
Published: July,
2014
The affective dog and its rational tale: Intuition and attunement
Journal:
Ethics
Published: January,
2013
The end of history illusion
Journal:
Science
Published: November,
2013
The value of emotion: How does episodic prospection modulate delay discounting?
Journal:
PLoS One
Published: June,
2014
The shape of things to come: Exploring goal-directed prospection
Journal:
Consciousness and Cognition
Published: June,
2013
Whatever next? Predictive brains, situated agents, and the future of cognitive science
Journal:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Published: March,
2013
Prospection by any other name? A response to Seligman et al. (2013)
Journal:
Perspectives on Psychological Science
Published: March,
2013
Navigating into the future or driven by the past
Journal:
Perspectives on Psychological Science
Published: March,
2013
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Journal:
Perspectives on Psychological Science
Published: September,
2012
From prospection to prospective memory: Constructing, encoding, and remembering future plans
Journal:
Psychologia
Published: November,
2012
Prospective memory in a language-trained chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
Journal:
Learning and Motivation
Published: November,
2012
Prospective cognition in rats
Journal:
Learning and Motivation
Published: November,
2012
Remembering the past and thinking about the future: Is it really about time?
Journal:
Learning and Motivation
Published: November,
2012
The association between past and future oriented thinking: Evidence from autism spectrum disorder.
Journal:
Learning and Motivation
Published: November,
2012
The role of episodic and semantic memory in episodic foresight
Journal:
Learning and Motivation
Published: November,
2012
Evidence for future cognition in animals
Journal:
Learning and Motivation
Published: November,
2012
Cumulative culture and future thinking: Is mental time travel a prerequisite to cumulative cultural evolution?
Journal:
Learning and Motivation
Published: April,
2012
Quantifying the advantage of looking forward
Journal:
Scientific Reports
Published: June,
2011
When time is running out: Changes in positive future perception and their relationships to changes in well-being in old age.
Journal:
Psychology and Aging
Published: November,
2010
Preschoolers’ understanding of others’ desires: Fulfilling mine enhances my understanding of yours
Journal:
Developmental Psychology
Published: July,
2010
Conscious thought is for facilitating social and cultural interactions: How mental simulations serve the animal-culture interface
Journal:
Psychological Review
Published: February,
2010
Moving through time
Journal:
Psychological Science
Published: January,
2010
Episodic memory versus episodic foresight: Similarities and differences
Journal:
Cognitive Science
Published: March,
2009
The common neural basis of autobiographical memory, prospection, navigation, theory of mind, and the default mode: A quantitative meta-analysis
Journal:
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Published: April,
2008
Episodic simulation of future events: Concepts, data, and applications
Journal:
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
Published: September,
2007
Experiencing the future
Journal:
Science
Published: June,
2007
The evolution of foresight: What is mental time travel, and is it unique to humans?
Journal:
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Published: September,
2006
Future orientation and suicide ideation and attempts in depressed adults ages 50 and over
Journal:
American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Published: July,
2006
Preschoolers’ current desires warp their choices for the future
Journal:
Psychological Science
Published: July,
2006
Imaging valuation models in human choice
Journal:
Annual Review of Neuroscience
Published: February,
2006
Self-projection and the brain
Journal:
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Published: March,
2004
A model of future-oriented motivation and self-regulation
Journal:
Educational Psychology Review
Published: November,
2002
The motivating function of thinking about the future: Expectations versus fantasies
Journal:
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Published: May,
2002
Are animals stuck in time?
Journal:
Psychological Bulletin
Published: March,
2001
The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions
Journal:
American Psychologist
Published: July,
1999
Implementation intentions: Strong effects of simple plans
Journal:
American Psychologist
Published: April,
1985
“Memory of the future”: An essay on the temporal organization of conscious awareness.
Journal:
Human Neurobiology