Personal and Observational Episodic Memory Support Episodic Future Thinking for Oneself and Another in 3–5‐Year‐Olds.
Seminal studies on children's episodic future thinking (EFT) have focused on EFT facilitated by direct experience. However, social EFT—helping someone with a future task—may rely on observing that person to infer goals and offer appropriate support. The role of personal and observational memory in g...
| Publicado en: | Infant & Child Development Vol. 35; no. 4; pp. 1 - 14 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jul2026
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=196443366&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 196443366 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 15227227 BW5 jtl: Infant & Child Development issn: 15227227 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jul2026 vid: 35 iid: 4 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 196443366 196443366 196443366 10.1002/icd.70128 196443366 ppf: 1 ppct: 13 formats: tig: atl: Personal and Observational Episodic Memory Support Episodic Future Thinking for Oneself and Another in 3–5‐Year‐Olds. aug: au: Pham, Que Anh Blankenship, Tashauna affil: University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA sug: subj: Episodic Memory Life Experiences Learning Thinking Self Concept Human Male Female Child, Preschool United States Experimental Studies Comparative Studies Random Assignment Probability Secondary Analysis Multiple Logistic Regression Descriptive Statistics Data Analysis Software Social Cognition Empathy Child Psychology Child, Preschool: 2-5 years Male Female ab: Seminal studies on children's episodic future thinking (EFT) have focused on EFT facilitated by direct experience. However, social EFT—helping someone with a future task—may rely on observing that person to infer goals and offer appropriate support. The role of personal and observational memory in guiding EFT for oneself and another was examined. One hundred sixty‐four children ages 3–5 years (92 females) who were Asian (n = 34), Black (n = 2), White (n = 118) and mixed‐race (n = 8) (remaining unknown) participated. Results showed that children performed best when episodic memory (EM) and EFT conditions matched: Personal EM supported EFT for oneself and observational EM supported EFT for another, both above chance (respectively, p < 0.0001, g = 0.49; p < 0.0001, g = 0.39). Highlights: Our paper investigated how personal and observational episodic memories (EM) contribute to episodic future thinking (EFT) for oneself or another.Using a modified Spoon task, we found that when EM and EFT perspectives were congruent, children used EFT better.These results demonstrate that EFT studies should consider the perspective of the EM that is sampled, and that EFT research in general should incorporate social contexts. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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