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dc.contributor.authorChen, Xing-Jie
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Lu-Lu
dc.contributor.authorCui, Ji-Fang
dc.contributor.authorWang, Ya
dc.contributor.authorShum, David HK
dc.contributor.authorChan, Raymond CK
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-31T12:30:31Z
dc.date.available2017-08-31T12:30:31Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078
dc.identifier.doi10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00879
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/99124
dc.description.abstractMental time travel refers to the ability to recall episodic past and imagine future events. The present study aimed to investigate cultural differences in mental time travel between Chinese and Australian university students. A total of 231 students (108 Chinese and 123 Australians) participated in the study. Their mental time travel abilities were measured by the Sentence Completion for Events from the Past Test (SCEPT) and the Sentence Completion for Events in the Future Test (SCEFT). Results showed that there were no cultural differences in the number of specific events generated for the past or future. Significant differences between the Chinese and Australian participants were found mainly in the emotional valence and content of the events generated. Both Chinese and Australian participants generated more specific positive events compared to negative events when thinking about the future and Chinese participants were more positive about their past than Australian participants when recalling specific events. For content, Chinese participants recalled more events about their interpersonal relationships, while Australian participants imagined more about personal future achievements. These findings shed some lights on cultural differences in episodic past and future thinking.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFrontiers Research Foundation
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom879-1
dc.relation.ispartofpageto879-8
dc.relation.ispartofjournalFrontiers in Psychology
dc.relation.ispartofvolume6
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive and computational psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5204
dc.titleChinese and Australians showed difference in mental time travel in emotion and content but not specificity
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
dcterms.licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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gro.rights.copyright© 2015 Chen, Liu, Cui, Wang, Shum and Chan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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gro.griffith.authorShum, David


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