New session of the "Paris IAS Ideas" online talk series, with the participation of Scott Cole, Associate Professor in Psychology at York St John University / Paris IAS Fellow.

The "Paris IAS Ideas" online talk series features short and stimulating presentations from fellows of the Paris Institute for Advanced Study, marking the beginning of 1-month writing residencies.

Online only.
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Presentation

Thinking, anticipating, and imagining the future are essential cognitive functions that influence our present decisions and actions. To study future thinking, psychologists have generally asked people to generate plausible future scenarios themselves. However, Virtual Reality (VR) has only recently been adopted and can be used to examine how immersive 3D scenarios can influence thought and emotion. This project exploree new directions in future thinking research - specially, how negative and positive versions of a collective future (in VR) can affect thought and perhaps change the way we think about the future.