... consistently influences some discrete emotions, emphasizing the cognitive appraisals and behavioral functions associated with different discrete emotions. We provide suggestions for empirically assessing effects of episodic future thinking on discrete emotions in future research. prospection episodic...

.... plans prospection motivation anticipated affect perceived distance People spend considerable amounts of time on prospection; mentally representing how the future might turn out (Szpunar et al., 2014) . One reason for thinking about future events is to plan for how to deal with them. In one...