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Homo Prospectus

Preface What This Book Is About How This Book Came About References Homo Prospectus Introduction Introducing Homo prospectus Two Prospective Principles Prospective Principles of Memory, Perception, and Learning The Prospective Regulator Prospection, Evaluation, Emotion, and Motivation References Intuitive Guidance: Emotion, Information, and Experience The Question of Psychological Realism—Could We Really Be Homo prospectus?Intuition and Information Affect and Information Looking Under the Hood—Do the Processes Underlying Our Conscious Experience Fit Homo prospectus?Intuition Revisited Notes References Deliberative Guidance: Intuitive Guidance in the Counterfactual Mode Episodic Prospection Affective Redeployment References Imaginative Guidance: A Mind Forever Wandering Complementary Learning Systems The Extended CLS Model: Mind-Wandering as Deep Learning Episodic Memory in the Surface System Multiple Deep Learning Systems Consciousness Trains of Thought: Distinctive Characteristics of Mind-Wandering Discursive Links Episodic Thought: Autobiographical and Prospective Evidence That Mind-Wandering Enhances Deep Learning Mind-Wandering and Dreams References Collective Prospection: The Social Construction of the Future Reality and Social Construction Monday Is Real Culture as Biological Strategy How Natural Selection Actually Selected Earning Trust Culture, Time, and Possibility Money and Time Religion References Prospection and Life's Enduring Questions Pragmatic Prospection Slumdog's Lockstep Vision: Determinism Terminator's Mission and the Reality of Mere Possibility Thinking About Thinking About the Future The Pragmatic Prospection Principle Pragmatic Prospection in Action What Is Special About Planning?Prospection and Accuracy Intelligence The Meaning of Death References Free Will and the Construction of Options The Power to Construct Options Options for Self-Expression The Phenomenology of Freedom Willing References Emotions: How the Future Feels (and Could Feel)Current Affect as Signal for Future Expected Emotion Two Meanings (and Kinds) of Emotion Simulating the Future The Case for Anticipated Emotion Guilt as Anticipated Emotion Decisions, Thoughts, and Feelings Acting on Basis of Current Emotion Affective Forecasting and Its Alleged Inaccuracy References Morality and Prospection Prospection Gone Awry: Depression How Dysfunctional Prospection Creates Depression Three Faults of Depressive Prospection Simulation of possible futures.Evaluation of possible futures.Negative beliefs about the future.A Vicious Cycle Improving Prospection How CBT Already Targets Faulty Prospection Promising Techniques Limitations and Future Directions Shortcomings What Are the Risks of Emphasizing Prospection?Despair Versus Depression References Creativity and Aging: What We Can Make With What We Have Left Defining Creativity The Present Review Cognition and Expertise Cognitive Abilities Cognitive abilities and creativity.Cognitive abilities and aging Originality Daydreaming and Mind-Wandering Knowledge and Expertise Knowledge, expertise, and aging.Intuition, Pattern Recognition, and Heuristics Personality and Motivation Diversity of Experience and Flexibility Openness to Experience, Flexibility, and Integrative Complexity Interest and Motivation Psychological Resources: Grit, Self-Efficacy, and Energy Interpersonal Processes Sense of the Audience Collaboration Summary and Discussion Multiplying the Components References Afterword

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