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Lee, Ruth, Shardlow, Jack, O’Connor, Patrick A., Hotson, Lesley, Hotson, Rebecca, Hoerl, Christoph and McCormack, Teresa (2022) Past-future preferences for hedonic goods and the utility of experiential memories. Philosophical Psychology , 35 (8). pp. 1181-1211. doi:10.1080/09515089.2022.2038784 ISSN 0951-5089.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/09515089.2022.2038784
Abstract
Recent studies have suggested that while both adults and children hold past-future hedonic preferences – preferring painful experiences to be in the past and pleasurable experiences to lie in the future – these preferences are abandoned when the quantity of pain or pleasure under consideration is greater in the past than in the future. We examined whether such preferences might be affected by the utility people assign to experiential memories, since the recollection of events can itself be pleasurable or aversive, and we examined the developmental trajectory of the value that people assign to experiential memories of past painful experiences. Using a task in which we manipulated hypothetical memory loss in a series of brief vignettes, we found that for some adults, but not for children, the disutility attached to the recollection of painful past events outweighed the disutility of living through future painful events. Between middle childhood and adulthood, experiential memory appears to assume a more important role in determining the value that people assign to past experiences and in mitigating bias toward the future.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Memory, Time perception, Time perception in children, Time -- Philosophy | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophical Psychology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0951-5089 | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 35 | ||||||||
Number: | 8 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1181-1211 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/09515089.2022.2038784 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 February 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 28 February 2022 | ||||||||
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