SUBMITTED / UNDER REVIEW

  1. Clayton McClure, H., Shevchenko, J., & Cole, S. N. New directions in mental time travel research: Understanding the ways future thinking can be applied to real-world challenges. In M. El Haj, M. Irish & S. Janssen (Eds.), Handbook of Autobiographical Memory: From Basic to Applied Perspectives. Elsevier.
  2. Cheriet, N., Öner, S., Watson, L. A., & Cole, S. N. Personal and Collective Memories and Future Thoughts: A Laboratory Study of Episodic and Non-Episodic Detail.
  3. Mazza, A., Davis, P., Johnson, L., Larkin, F., & Cole, S. N. Identifying Therapies for Reducing Alexithymia: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Under review.

IN PRESS / PUBLISHED

  1. Öner, S., Watson, L. A., Cole, S. N., & Szpunar, K. K. (2025). Spatial Optimism in Individuals’ Future Thinking about the COVID-19 Pandemic. Applied Cognitive Psychology. Accepted.
  2. Shevchenko, J., Ji, J. L., Cole, S. N., Renner, F., & Hallford, D. J. (2025). Investigating the effect of mental imagery-based future episodic simulation on subsequent behavioral engagement in depressed, dysphoric, and nondepressed individuals. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000232
  3. Duffy, J., Cole, S., Charura, D., & Shevchenko, J. (2025). Efficacy of the Best Possible Self Intervention for Generalised Anxiety: Exploration of Mediators and Moderators. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2025.2487442
  4. Cole, S. N., & Charura, D. (2025). The Dire Need to Examine Relationships Between Prospection and Subtypes of Anxiety. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 14(1), 24–29. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000222
  5. O’Brien, C., Akeel, A., McCormick, G., Cole, S., & Charura, D. (2025). Global Approaches to Supporting Mental Health and Resettlement for Veterans With Embodied Trauma: A Comprehensive Scoping Review. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 25, e70011. https://doi.org/10.1002/capr.70011
  6. Cole, S., Szpunar, K., Benoit, R., Bastin, C., Schacter, D., Rafal, R., & Turnbull, O. (2025). Emotional past and future events after pulvinar damage: A neuropsychological case series. Cortex, 184, 221–235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.12.021
  7. McClure, J. H. C., Elwell, C., Jones, T., Mirković, J., & Cole, S. N. (2024). On second thoughts: Testing the underlying mechanisms of spontaneous future thought. Cognition, 250, 105863. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105863
  8. Duffy, J., Cole, S., Charura, D., & Shevchenko, J. (2024). Anxiety, Self-Satisfaction and Self-Defining Events: Exploring the Inter-Related Dimensions of the Self. Identity, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/15283488.2024.2390148
  9. Duffy, J., Cole, S. N., Charura, D., & Boland, J. (2023). Depression and Looming Cognitive Style: Examining the Mediating Effect of Perceived Control. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadr.2023.100698
  10. Cole, S. N., Markostamou, I., Watson, L. A., Barzykowski, K., Ergen, I., Taylor, A., & Öner, S. (2022). Spontaneous past and future thinking about the COVID-19 pandemic across 14 countries: Effects of individual and country-level COVID-19 impact indicators. Journal of Applied Research on Memory and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1037/mac0000071
  11. Öner, S., Watson, L. A., Adıgüzel, Z., et al. (2022). Collective remembering and forecasting during the COVID-19 pandemic: How the impact of COVID-19 affected the themes and phenomenology of global and national memories across 15 countries. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01329-8
  12. McClure, H. C., & Cole, S. N. (2022). Controllability is key: Goal pursuit during COVID-19 and insights for theories of self-regulation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. http://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12920
  13. Cole, S. N., & Tubbs, P. M. C. (2021). Predictors of obsessive–compulsive symptomology: Mind wandering about the past and future. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01585-4
  14. Cole, S. N., Smith, D. M., Ragan, K., Suurmond, R., & Armitage, C. J. (2021). Synthesizing Effects of Mental Simulation on Behavior Change: Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28, 1514–1537. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-021-01880-6
  15. Cole, S. N., & Kvavilashvili, L. (2021). Spontaneous and deliberate future thinking: A dual process account. Psychological Research, 85, 464–479. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01262-7
  16. Cole, S. N., & Duffy, J. (2020). Functions of involuntary and voluntary future thinking: Evidence from subjective ratings. Psychological Research, 85, 1583–1601. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00426-020-01338-9
  17. Cole, S. N., & Kvavilashvili, L. (2019). Spontaneous future cognition: The past, present and future of an emerging topic. Psychological Research, 83(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-019-01193-3
  18. Hamilton, J., & Cole, S. N. (2017). Imagining possible selves across time: Characteristics of self-images and episodic thoughts. Consciousness & Cognition, 52, 9–20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.04.015
  19. Cole, S. N., & Pauly-Takacs, K. (2017). Is obesity linked with episodic memory impairment? The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(3), 590–591. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2016.1173075
  20. Conway, M. A., Loveday, C., & Cole, S. N. (2016). The Remembering-Imagining System. Memory Studies, 9, 256–265. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F175069801664523
  21. Cole, S. N., Morrison, C., Barak, O., Pauly-Takacs, K., & Conway, M. A. (2016). Amnesia and Future Thinking: Exploring the Role of Memory in the Quantity and Quality of Future Thoughts. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 55, 206–224. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjc.12094
  22. Cole, S. N., Staugaard, S., & Berntsen, D. (2016). Inducing Involuntary and Voluntary Mental Time Travel using a laboratory paradigm. Memory and Cognition, 44, 376–389. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-015-0564-9
  23. Cole, S. N., & Berntsen, D. (2016). Do Future Thoughts Reflect Personal Goals? Current Concerns and Mental Time Travel into the Past and Future. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 69, 273–284. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2015.1044542
  24. Cole, S. N., Fotopoulou, A., Oddy, M., & Moulin, C. J. A. (2014). Implausible Future Events in a Confabulating Patient with an Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurism. Neurocase, 20, 208–224. https://doi.org/10.1080/13554794.2012.741259
  25. Cole, S. N., Morrison, C. M., & Conway, M. A. (2013). Episodic Future Thinking: Linking Neuropsychological Performance and Episodic Detail in Young and Old Adults. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 1687–1706. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.758157
  26. Cole, S. N., Gill, N., Conway, M. A., & Morrison, C. M. (2012). Mental Time Travel: Effects of Trial Duration on Episodic and Semantic Content. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 65, 2288–2296. https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2012.740053