Navigating Into the Future or Driven by the Past

By Martin E. P. Seligman, P. Railton, Roy F. Baumeister, Chandra Sekhar Sripada. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2013

615 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology

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How researchers see this paper

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Roy F. Baumeister
2. Peter Carruthers
3. Kathleen D. Vohs
4. Lyle Ungar
5. Martin E. P. Seligman
6. H. A. Schwartz
7. David J. Stillwell
8. Michal Kosinski

In General Decision Sciences

1. Kathleen D. Vohs
2. Roy F. Baumeister
3. Peter Carruthers
4. Martin E. P. Seligman
5. Margaret L. Kern
6. Jonah A. Berger
7. Evan Weingarten
8. G. Oettingen

In Social Psychology

1. Kathleen D. Vohs
2. Roy F. Baumeister
3. Lyle Ungar
4. Margaret L. Kern
5. Martin E. P. Seligman
6. Peter Carruthers
7. G. Oettingen
8. Michal Kosinski

Citations in the corpus

• A nice surprise? Predictive processing and the active pursuit of novelty (2018, background): “This looks diametrically opposed to oft-lauded goals such as continued personal growth and self-actualization (see Maslow 1943; Seligman et al. 2013).”
• The five dimensions of Futures Consciousness (2018, background): “The theory is built around a feed-forward model of learning, where expectations are continuously adapted to observations (Seligman et al., 2013).”
• Pro-environmental behavior correlates with present and future subjective well-being (2016, background): “…Stern et al. 1999; Thøgersen and Ölander 2002, 2003), and this is also in line with a recent provocative review on psychological theories suggesting that prospection for the future may provide a core framework for explaining a person’s affects, decisions, and behaviors (Seligman et al. 2013).”
• Pragmatic Prospection: How and Why People Think about the Future (2016, background): “Research on prospection suggests that people are navigating into the future more than driven by the past (Seligman et al., 2013).”
• Learned Helplessness at Fifty: Insights from Neuroscience (2016, background): “Given our caution about the multifarious functions and structures of the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, it has not escaped our notice that one such function is prospection, the representation of possible futures (Seligman et al., 2013).”
• Visual Robot Task Planning (2018, background): “Some say this act — the act of prospection — is the essence of true intelligence [1].”
• Extracting Human Temporal Orientation from Facebook Language (2015, background): “1 Decisions are influenced by the past, present, and mental simulations of possible futures (Seligman et al., 2013).”
• Valence and Value (2018, positive): “As we noted in Section 1, cognitive scientists have increasingly come to recognize the vital role played by prospection in human practical reasoning and decision making (Damasio, 1994; Gilbert & Wilson, 2005, 2007; Buckner, 2010; Seligman et al., 2013).”