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Episodic Future Thinking: Visualize Yourself into a Better Future

by | May 2, 2018 | DECISION MAKING, PEACEMAKING

“Studies concerned with functions have identified several domains in which episodic future thinking produces performance benefits, including decision making, emotion regulation, prospective memory, and spatial navigation.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11728911

Episodic future thinking is sometimes called episodic future imagining.

Further Reading
Curr Opin Behav Sci. 2017 Oct;17:41-50. Episodic Future Thinking: Mechanisms and Functions.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2001 Dec 1;5(12):533-539. Episodic future thinking.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research. 2016;40(7):1558-1566. Episodic Future Thinking: Expansion of the Temporal Window in Individuals with Alcohol Dependence.

https://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/2014/04_11_2014/story1.htm

Delay discounting

  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29130061
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28282631
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28276983

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Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin.

Kenneth’s mission is to use medicine, spiritual formation, poverty alleviation, and leadership development to help people live lives to the fullest. He holds two doctorate degrees: the first is in medicine and the second is in spiritual formation. He is a practicing U.S. physician, an assistant professor of medicine, and a senior professor of leadership and spiritual formation at Servants University (SU). Kenneth is also a core faculty in the department of orphan care and poverty alleviation at SU and the founder and president of the Kenneth Acha Foundation, an organization that has helped thousands of orphans in Cameroon and trained many leaders since 2005.

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