Personality and mental time travel: a differential approach to autonoetic consciousness |
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Authors: | Quoidbach Jordi Hansenne Michel Mottet Caroline |
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Institution: | aPersonality & Individual Differences Unit, Department of Cognitive Science, University of Liège, 5 Bd. du Rectorat B-32, 4000 Liège, Belgium |
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Abstract: | Recent research on autonoetic consciousness indicates that the ability to remember the past and the ability to project oneself into the future are closely related. The purpose of the present study was to confirm this proposition by examining whether the relationship observed between personality and episodic memory could be extended to episodic future thinking and, more generally, to investigate the influence of personality traits on self-information processing in the past and in the future. Results show that Neuroticism and Harm Avoidance predict more negative past memories and future projections. Other personality dimensions exhibit a more limited influence on mental time travel (MTT). Therefore, our study provide an additional evidence to the idea that MTT into the past and into the future rely on a common set of processes by which past experiences are used to envision the future. |
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Keywords: | Episodic future thinking Autonoetic consciousness Mental time travel Personality |
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