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Weiler, J. A., Suchan, B., &Daum, I. (2010). When the future becomes the past: Differences in brain activation patterns for episodic memory and episodic future thinking.

Episodic memory and episodic future thinking activate a network of overlapping brain regions, but little is known about the mechanism with which the brain separates the two processes. It was recently suggested that differential activity for memory and future thinking may be linked to differences in the phenomenal properties (e.g., richness of detail). Using functional …

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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 …

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