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Christopher Jude McCarroll
English
Philosophy of Mind
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Open AccessMourning a death foretold: memory and mental time travel in anticipatory grief
Grief is a complex emotional experience or process, which is typically felt in response to the death of a loved one, most typically a family member, child, or partner. Yet the way in which grief manifests is muc...
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Resisting temptation and overcoming procrastination: The roles of mental time travel and metacognition
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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Rewarding one’s Future Self: Psychological Connectedness, Episodic Prospection, and a Puzzle about Perspective
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...
