Imagining the near and far future: The role of location familiarity

被引:80
作者
Arnold, Kathleen M. [1 ]
McDermott, Kathleen B. [1 ]
Szpunar, Karl K. [2 ]
机构
[1] Washington Univ, Dept Psychol, St Louis, MO 63130 USA
[2] Harvard Univ, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
关键词
Episodic future thought; Episodic memory; Vividness; Location; Familiarity; PHENOMENAL CHARACTERISTICS; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; EPISODIC SIMULATION; MEMORY; TIME; EXPERIENCE; THOUGHT;
D O I
10.3758/s13421-011-0076-1
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Plausible personal events envisioned as occurring in the near future tend to be reported as more vivid than those set in the far future. Why is this? The present set of three experiments identified one's familiarity with the location in which the event is placed as critical in this regard. Specifically, Experiment 1 demonstrated that amongst a wide range of phenomenological characteristics, clarity of location appears to drive the overall difference in vividness between events imagined to take place in the near and the far future. Experiments 2 and 3 were designed to further elucidate this finding. Experiment 2 demonstrated that near future events are more likely than far future events to be imagined in familiar locations. Experiment 3 showed that future events set in familiar locations tend to be imagined with greater clarity than those set in unfamiliar locations. The results of all three experiments converge on the conclusion that the difference in vividness of events imagined as occurring in the near and far future is mediated by one's familiarity with the location in which the event is imagined to occur.
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页码:954 / 967
页数:14
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