Prospection: Experiencing the Future

By Daniel T Gilbert, Timothy D. Wilson. Science, 2007

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Pragmatic Prospection: How and Why People Think about the Future (2016, background): “Pragmatic Prospection: How and Why People Think About the Future Roy F. Baumeister Florida State University Kathleen D. Vohs University of Minnesota Gabriele Oettingen New York University and Universität Hamburg In the present, the past is more knowable than the future—but people think far more…”
Prospection: Interpretable plans from language by predicting the future (2019, background): “Prospection is the ability to reason about the consequences of future actions without executing them [3].”
Detecting Emotional Contagion in Massive Social Networks (2014, background): “In addition to their internal and psychological relevance [37], emotions play a specifically social role: when humans experience emotions, they do not generally keep them to themselves, but rather, they tend to show them.”
Nurturing Nature: How Brain Development Is Inherently Social and Emotional, and What This Means for Education (2019, positive): “…remembering past experiences, imagining hypothetical or future scenarios, or deliberating on inferred, abstract, or morally relevant information (Gilbert & Wilson, 2007; Immordino-Yang, Christodoulou, & Singh, 2012; Raichle et al., 2001; Smallwood, Brown, Baird, & Schooler, 2012; Spreng &…”
Counterfactual thoughts about experienced, observed, and narrated events (2011, result): “Similar differences have been reported for other forms of judgement (Gilbert & Wilson, 2007 ).”
Violation of Expectation: Neural Correlates Reflect Bases of Prediction (2008, positive): “In a wider sense, our decisions and overall behavior are determined by “prospection,” an ability to simulate future events and their hedonistic and emotional consequences (Gilbert & Wilson, 2007 ; Herwig et al, 2007 ).”
Self-Control in School-Age Children (2014, background): “Prospection is the mental representation of possible futures (Gilbert & Wilson, 2007; Seligman, Railton, Baumeister, & Sripada, 2013).”
The Brain’s Default Network and its Adaptive Role in Internal Mentation (2011, background): “An interesting possibility echoed by other researchers is that an adaptive function of memory retrieval may be to facilitate mental construction of novel episodes to help individuals prepare for the immediate and distant future (Buckner and Carroll 2007; Bar 2007; Gilbert and Wilson 2007; Schacter a”
The five dimensions of Futures Consciousness (2018, background): “Knowledge, cognition and emotions all play crucial roles in prospection (Gilbert & Wilson, 2007; Szpunar et al., 2016).”
Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past (2013, background): “Prospection preferentially engages certain regions that are required for flexible recombination of information, including anterior hippocampus and frontopolar cortex (Addis, Cheng, & Schacter, 2010; Addis, Pan, Vu, Laiser, & Schacter, 2009; see also Szpunar, Chan, & McDermott, 2009).”
An opportunity cost model of subjective effort and task performance (2013, positive): “In short, we would explain vigilance decrements with reference to subjects’ learning (implicitly or explicitly) about the value of devoting attention to the vigilance task versus dividing attention between the task and mind wandering (Gilbert & Wilson 2007).”
Preferences for positive psychology exercises (2010, background): “People's self-knowledge appears to be limited in a variety of domains (Dunning, Heath, & Suls, 2004 ) and prediction of future behavior and emotions is wrought with biases (ie, Epley & Dunning, 2000 ; Gilbert & Wilson, 2007 ).”
The Engine of Well-Being (2012, background): “This phenomenon is termed miswanting, which involves having “less to do with not getting what we want and more to do with not wanting what we like” (Gilbert & Wilson, 2007, p. 551).”