The Impact of Self-processing on Mental Time Travel

"A psychophysical task (D'Angelo et al., 2023) will be adopted. In this task, a projection in time will be induced by faces of different ages. Face stimuli will be presented with a short sentence describing a particular life event, commonly occurring around 60. Participants will perform a two-alternative forced-choice task under two experimental conditions. In the past projection condition, they will indicate whether it is likely or unlikely that the person of the face shown could have experienced the indicated event 10 years earlier. In the future projection, they will indicate whether it is likely or unlikely that the person depicted will experience the indicated event in 10 years."

In this task participants will estimate the age of the faces adopted as stimuli.

In this task participants will be instructed to associated each event with the age at which they believe it typically occurred.