Mastering Today by Envisioning Tomorrow: Rethinking Delayed Gratification Through Future-Oriented Thinking and Perceptual Rewards
The aim of this study was to examine the effects of episodic future thinking (EFT) on delayed gratification using a perceptual reward paradigm. A total of 43 participants, aged 18 to 56, were recruited and asked to imagine scenarios under two conditions (EFT and control). The influence of these scenarios on the ability to delay gratification were examined in an intertemporal choice task, where pho
