Visual perspective as a two-dimensional construct in episodic future thought

Kinley, Isaac; Porteous, Morgan; Levy, Yarden; Becker, Suzanna

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2021.103148

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“…Interestingly, the visibility of the self in the third‐person perspective photograph did not differentially impact the perspective people adopted during remembering. Prior research has often defined observer‐like perspective based on the visibility of the self (e.g., “as if you were seeing yourself in the memory”), but recent evidence has shown that these are separable constructs (Kinley et al, 2021). Thus, it could be of interest to examine how photographs depicting third‐person perspectives that differ based on whether the self is visible may differentially bias memory perspective.…”

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When having photographs of events influences the visual perspective of autobiographical memories

King,

Panjwani,

St. Jacques

2023

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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Photographs are frequently taken to preserve memories of events from the personal past, but they can also bias how we remember. For example, photographs often capture events from a novel visual perspective (e.g., seeing ourselves in the image). Here, we examined how the presence of the self in photographs influences autobiographical memories. Participants provided subjective ratings for specific autobiographical memories, and then, following the retrieval phase, they were asked to indicate whether they had photographs for these memories and the nature of these images. Across three studies (N = 378), we found that autobiographical memories that participants reported the presence of photographs containing the self were more likely to be remembered from an observer‐like perspective than memories with photographs in which the self was not visible. These findings have important implications for understanding how the growing number of photographs taken in everyday life biases the perspective of our memories.

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When having photographs of events influences the visual perspective of autobiographical memories

King,

Panjwani,

St. Jacques

2023

Applied Cognitive Psychology

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“…This may be attributed to the influence of negative emotions on the subjective quality of individual scenes in future thinking, as negative emotions potentially hinder the process of generating expectations ( Hepburn et al, 2009 ). Meanwhile, personality disintegration, a state in which individuals perceive themselves as insignificant, can lead to feelings of despair and indifference toward the past, present, and future, and thus disrupt the complex metacognitive judgments necessary for making decisions about the future ( Kinley et al, 2021 ). Since there is a close relationship between achieving accomplishments and realizing future goals ( Lee et al, 2010 ), lacking personal accomplishment in nurses with burnout might lead to less specific future imagination.…”

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Phenomenological characteristics of autobiographical future thinking in nurses with burnout: a case-control study

Xue,

Feng,

Zheng

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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ObjectiveNurses constitute the largest group of healthcare workers worldwide, and job burnout is very common among them. This study aims to explore abnormal future thinking in nurses with burnout. Additionally, the study investigates whether these manifestations worsen as burnout progresses.MethodsThe study was conducted in inpatient ward nurses at a tertiary hospital in Hangzhou, China. In the first phase, two group of nurses were recruited: nurses with burnout (N = 70) and nurses without burnout (N = 70). In the second phase, three groups were recruited according to the burnout levels: mild burnout (N = 43), moderate burnout (N = 42) and severe burnout (N = 43). Data on job burnout were obtained using the Chinese Maslach Burnout Inventory. The Sentence Completion for Events in the Future Test (SCEFT) was employed to measure the content of future thinking, which was evaluated by two raters in terms of the specificity, emotional valence, and concrete content of the imagined future events. The proportions of specific types of events among all the produced events were calculated.ResultsThe results revealed that nurses with burnout, compared to nurses without burnout, imagined fewer specific future events, positive events, and events related to relationships and achievement. They also had more omissions. As the level of burnout increased, their impairment in future thinking worsened. Furthermore, the results also revealed that the scores of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and personal accomplishment had significant correlations with the proportions of positive events and events related to relationships and achievement/mastery in nurses’ future thinking content.ConclusionThe future thinking ability of nurses with burnout was impaired, and this impairment worsened as the symptoms of burnout progressed. The findings of the present study have important implications for nurse caring and advocate effective interventions targeting positive future thinking to mitigate nurses’ burnout.

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“…Second, the Salient Self view suggests if an AM is congruent with the self-concept or elicits a positive feeling, then adopting an observer-like perspective amplifies emotional experiences associated with an AM by enhancing self-focused attention and making the self-relevant information more salient . Supporting this idea, Kinley et al (2021) recently showed that the visibility of the self in an observer-like perspective is linked to the emotional intensity of future episodic thoughts. Specifically, when the self becomes more visible or salient during mental imagery, the experience of the emotional aspects of the event is heightened.…”

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How shifting visual perspective during autobiographical memory retrieval influences emotion: A change in retrieval orientation

Küçüktaş

Jacques

2022

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Visual perspective during autobiographical memory (AM) retrieval influences how people remember the emotional aspects of memories. Prior research in emotion regulation has also shown that shifting from an own eyes to an observer-like perspective is an efficient way of regulating the affect elicited by emotional AMs. However, the impact of shifting visual perspective is also dependent on the nature of the emotion associated with the event. The current review synthesizes behavioral and functional neuroimaging findings from the event memory and emotion regulation literature that examine how adopting particular visual perspectives and actively shifting across them during retrieval alters emotional experience, by primarily focusing on emotional intensity. We review current theories explaining why shifts in perspectives may or may not change the emotional characteristics of memories, then propose a new theory, suggesting that the own eyes and observer-like perspectives are two different retrieval orientations supported by differential neural activations that lead episodic details to be reconstructed in specific ways.

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Visual perspective as a two-dimensional construct in episodic future thought

Cited by 9 publications

References 81 publications

When having photographs of events influences the visual perspective of autobiographical memories

When having photographs of events influences the visual perspective of autobiographical memories

Phenomenological characteristics of autobiographical future thinking in nurses with burnout: a case-control study

How shifting visual perspective during autobiographical memory retrieval influences emotion: A change in retrieval orientation

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