Children's future-oriented cognition has become a well-established area of research over
the last decade. Future-oriented cognition encompasses a range of processes, including …

Highlights•Food-caching corvids pass what–where–when tasks.•They also display several
other non-linguistic hallmarks of episodic memory systems.•This includes rich, flexible …

This research investigated children's and adults' understanding of the mind by assessing
beliefs about the temporal features of mental states. English‐speaking North American …

Episodic foresight (EFT) helps to anticipate and to prepare for the upcoming opportunities of
the 21st century. The present study aimed to investigate how personality, temperament and …

Increasing psychological distance is an established method for improving children's
performance in a number of self-regulation tasks. For example, using a delay of gratification …

We examined developmental differences and sources of variability in trait reasoning. Four-to
10-year-olds and adults (N= 198) rated how mean or nice “medium-mean” and “medium …

Despite remarkable achievements in children's understanding of their own and others'
minds by the age of five years, there is still much more to learn to be a competent …

People often speculate about what the future holds. They wonder what will happen
tomorrow, and what the world will be like in the distant future. Nonetheless, people's ability …

Young children reason more adaptively about the future (eg, predicting preferences and
delaying gratification) when they are asked to think about another person's perspective …

Future simulation and motivation are two strategies that might help children improve their
induced-state episodic foresight. In Study 1, 3-to 5-year-old children (N= 96) consumed …