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The imagery we adopt when recalling the personal past may involve different perspectives. In many cases, we remember the past event from our original point of view. In some cases, however, we remember the past...
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We tend to seek immediate gratification at the expense of long-term reward. In fact, the more distant a reward is from the present moment?the more we tend to discount it. This phenomenon is known as temporal d...
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When faced with intertemporal choices, which have consequences that unfold over time, we often discount the future, preferring smaller immediate rewards often at the expense of long-term benefits. How psycholo...
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When remembering events from one’s life, one often visualises the remembered scene as one originally experienced it: from an ‘internal’, ‘own-eyes’, ‘first-person’, or ‘field’ perspective. Sometimes, however, ...