Quoidbach, J., Wood, A. M., &Hansenne, M. (2009). Back to the future: The effect of daily practice of mental time travel into the future on happiness and anxiety.
The ability to project oneself into the future has previously been found to be related to happiness and anxiety. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the causal effect of deliberate mental time travel (MTT) on happiness and anxiety. More specifically, we address whether purposely engaging in positive, negative, or neutral future MTT would lead to different levels of happiness and anxiety. Results ...