2019
DOI: 10.1037/pha0000260
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Abstract: Episodic future thinking (EFT), or imagining experiencing one's future, reduces discounting of future rewards, but the mechanisms of this effect are unclear. We examined the role of cues to engage in EFT, possible demand characteristics inherent to those cues (prompting awareness of the hypothesized effects of EFT), and changes in temporal horizon (how far one thinks into the future) in these reductions in delay discounting. In Experiment 1, cues prompting participants to engage in EFT during the discounting t… Show more

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“…The goal of these activities is to enhance the participants' ability to "preexperience" the future in an active, vivid, and concrete manner. A positive personal goal or event is selected, and the feelings and experience of achieving the goal or the event are verbalized and practiced [53]. The interventionist will coach the participant to describe an upcoming, positive event at least 2 months away (i.e., the duration of the study), using present tense and concrete details (e.g., who will be there, where event will take place, visual/sensory information) in order to make the experience as vivid as possible.…”
Section: Future Orientationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The goal of these activities is to enhance the participants' ability to "preexperience" the future in an active, vivid, and concrete manner. A positive personal goal or event is selected, and the feelings and experience of achieving the goal or the event are verbalized and practiced [53]. The interventionist will coach the participant to describe an upcoming, positive event at least 2 months away (i.e., the duration of the study), using present tense and concrete details (e.g., who will be there, where event will take place, visual/sensory information) in order to make the experience as vivid as possible.…”
Section: Future Orientationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Specifically, participants' cues were reviewed for addressing the questions in the assigned condition. Participants' data were flagged for exclusion (and rejection on AMT) if their EFT/ERT/HIT cues were unrelated to the question/ prompt (e.g., did not mention an event or information presented in the relevant HIT paragraph), consisted primarily of text copy/pasted from example cues and/or HIT paragraphs, or contained otherwise incomprehensible responses (see Rung and Madden [20]).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A threshold of +/-0.10 (the region of practical equivalence) served as the interval within which the most likely mean differences (called the credible interval) must lie to be considered equivalent. A threshold value of .10 is less than the difference between EFT and ERT groups (obtained Mdn difference = .13) and is the same as that used in other research [20]. Equivalence was tested using both a 95% and 90% credible interval; in other words, 90-95% of the most likely mean differences needed to fall within -.10 and + .10 for AUCs to be considered equivalent across the two groups.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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