This study analyzes the production and recall of future thoughts during the COVID-19 lockdown. Participants were free to produce future thoughts (Experiment 1) or received cues to promote production (Experiment 2), and then were asked to recall as many of the future thoughts produced as possible. The Valence (positive vs. negative) and the Event Type (personal vs. collective) thoughts were considered. In production and recall, there were no global differences between the positive and negative thoughts in Experiment 1, whereas in Experiment 2 the cues led to more positive than negative ones. More importantly, a Valence × Event Type interaction was observed in both experiments for production and recall data, indicating a positivity bias for personal and a negativity bias for collective future thinking. These findings contribute to a better understanding of mental time travel in situations as complex as the COVID-19 pandemic.

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COVID-19 大流行封锁期间通往未来的心灵之旅和对未来想法的记忆

本研究分析了 COVID-19 封锁期间未来想法的产生和回忆。参与者可以自由地产生未来的想法（实验1）或接受促进产生的提示（实验2），然后被要求回忆尽可能多的未来产生的想法。考虑了效价（积极与消极）和事件类型（个人与集体）想法。在产生和回忆中，实验 1 中的积极想法和消极想法之间不存在全局差异，而在实验 2 中，线索导致的积极想法多于消极想法。更重要的是，在生产和回忆数据的实验中都观察到了效价×事件类型的相互作用，这表明个人的积极偏见和集体未来思维的消极偏见。这些发现有助于更好地理解像 COVID-19 大流行这样复杂的情况下的心理时间旅行。