Future-oriented mental time travel in individuals with disordered gambling |
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Institution: | 1. The University of Queensland, St. Lucia, QLD 4072, Australia;2. Centre for Youth Substance Abuse Research, The University of Queensland, Mental Health Centre, Royal Brisbane and Women''s Hospital, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia;1. CIPSI Grupo Vinculado CIECS-UNC-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina;2. Instituto de Investigación Médica M. y M. Ferreyra, INIMEC-CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba C.P. 5000, Argentina;3. Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba C.P. 5000, Argentina |
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Abstract: | This study investigated the ability of individuals with disordered gambling to imagine future events. Problem gamblers (n = 35) and control participants (n = 35) were asked to imagine positive and negative future events for three temporal distances (one week, one year, 5–10 years). Then, a variety of phenomenological aspects of their future thoughts (e.g., sensory and contextual details, autonoetic consciousness) were rated. Compared to control subjects, problem gamblers generated fewer positive and negative events across all temporal distances, an impairment that was correlated to verbal fluency scores. Furthermore, problem gamblers rated imagined events as containing fewer sensory and contextual details, and lacking autonoetic consciousness. These findings demonstrate that problem gambling is associated with a reduced future-oriented mental time travel ability and, in particular, with diminished autonoetic consciousness when imagining future events. |
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Keywords: | Gambling Future-oriented mental travel Autonoetic consciousness |
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