Abstract
Delay discounting is an important part of intertemporal decision-making. This decision involves information about the costs and benefits of future possibilities, which affect people making decision. Episodic foresight therefore has a capacity to organize current action in view of anticipated events and concerns the imaginative of thinking about future events that often draw on the visual modality. In the clinic research, episodic foresight could improve maladaptive behaviors, including pathological gambling, obesity, drug and alcohol abuse. Our study explores the psychological mechanism and brain mechanism. We proposed that future research should further explore how the episodic foresight affects delay discounting and how episodic foresight is applied to clinic and behaviour modification.
Highlights
Delay discounting is an important part of intertemporal decision-making
We proposed that future research should further explore how the episodic foresight affects delay discounting and how episodic foresight is applied to clinic and behaviour modification
Lots of studies have shown that it is impossible to suppress their own impulse preferences, and delaying satisfaction is a hallmark of many maladaptive behaviors, such as pathological gambling, overeating, alcohol and drugs abuse (Bickel & Marsch, 2001; Epstein et al, 2010; Mackillop et al, 2010; Odlaug, Schreiber, & Grant, 2013)
Summary
Lots of studies have shown that it is impossible to suppress their own impulse preferences, and delaying satisfaction is a hallmark of many maladaptive behaviors, such as pathological gambling, overeating, alcohol and drugs abuse (Bickel & Marsch, 2001; Epstein et al, 2010; Mackillop et al, 2010; Odlaug, Schreiber, & Grant, 2013). Humans can make mental time travel or episodic foresight for the future This ability allows people to imagine potential future rewards and their possible scenarios, providing information for decision making (Atance & O’Neill, 2001; Suddendorf & Corballis, 2010; Suddendorf & Moore, 2011). From the aspects of obesity, gambling, alcohol abuse and tobacco and drug abuse caused by poor diet, the scenario expectation can control the impulse and improve the maladaptive behavior. It further analyzes the influencing factors of the episodic foresight on the delay discounting and forecasts the future research direction
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