People are capable of thinking about the future, the past, remote locations, another person's perspective, and counterfactual alternatives. Without denying the uniqueness of each process, it is proposed that they constitute different forms of traversing psychological distance. Psychological distance is egocentric: Its reference point is the self in the here and now, and the different ways in wh...

We all experience feelings related to our uncertainty about the future, such as hopefulness, anxiety, and suspense. Psychologists have long recognized the importance of these anticipatory emotions, with anxiety theory being one of the most dynamic Želds of psychological research. Economists, in contrast, have paid little attention to the anticipatory emotions, and what attention has been paid h...

Triune Ethics Theory (TET) is a psychological theory developed to meet three goals. First, it attempts to harvest critical findings from neurobiology, affective neuroscience, and cognitive science and to integrate them into moral psychology for the purpose of informing psychological research on the moral life of persons. In contrast to dominant theories that focus on top-down, deliberative reas...