This coffeesode unravels how young children express their thoughts about the future in their daily lives. The discussion challenges the traditional "spoon task" method of measuring episodic future thinking, which relies on children performing directed actions in a lab setting. The episode discusses four primary themes in these expressions: expressing future desires and intentions, future-oriented information-seeking, connecting present actions with future outcomes, and predicting future mental and physiological states.

Reference-
Ayson G, Atance CM. 2024Children’s mental time travel into the future: afunctional perspective. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 379:20230399.
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0399

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