Future Thinking: 20 Years On

This one-day workshop brings together researchers of experimental psychology to consider what progress has been made in EFT research.

The main aim of this workshop hosted by York St John University, is to bring together researchers from different sub-domains of experimental psychology to reflect on empirical and theoretical progress on the notion of Episodic Future Thinking (EFT). Atance and O’Neil (2001) coined the term ‘Episodic Future Thinking’ (EFT) more than 20 years ago as way of capturing a distinctive form of thinking about the future that they claimed has close parallels to the type of thought about the past typically described as episodic memory. Since their original paper, there has been intense and increasing interest in research on future thinking within experimental psychology and neuroscience (with 100s of articles, four Special Issues and at least three books). This one-day workshop will bring together researchers from different perspectives within experimental psychology to consider what progress has been made in EFT research.

We would like to encourage researchers (especially ECRs) to present a poster as part of the workshop. If you would like to submit a poster, please email Scott Cole: s.cole1@yorksj.ac.uk your abstract by 20^th November 2023.

Early career researchers will be available to apply for an EPS Grindley Grant, subject to eligibility, to help them attend (https://eps.ac.uk/grindley-grant/).

 

We are looking forward to welcoming the following guest speakers, with more to be announced:

Cristina Atance, University of Ottawa, Canada

Arnaud D’Argembeau, University of Liege, Belgium

Teresa McCormack, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Lia Kvavilashvili, University of Hertfordshire, UK

Karl Szpunar, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada

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