“Studies concerned with functions have identified several domains in which episodic future thinking produces performance benefits, including decision making, emotion regulation, prospective memory, and spatial navigation.” https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11728911
Episodic future thinking is sometimes called episodic future imagining.
Further Reading
Curr Opin Behav Sci. 2017 Oct;17:41-50. Episodic Future Thinking: Mechanisms and Functions.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2001 Dec 1;5(12):533-539. Episodic future thinking.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research. 2016;40(7):1558-1566. Episodic Future Thinking: Expansion of the Temporal Window in Individuals with Alcohol Dependence.
https://nihrecord.nih.gov/newsletters/2014/04_11_2014/story1.htm
Delay discounting
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29130061
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28282631
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28276983
