Future self-continuity is associated with improved health and increases exercise behavior.

• Stimulating Future-Oriented Thinking and Goal-Achievement Through the Future Self Using Virtual Reality and a Smartphone App: Randomized Controlled Trial

  2026 Journal of Medical Internet Research article Psychology Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research Open access

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• Conceptualisation, operationalisation and role of identity in physical activity and smoking in individuals aged 45 and over: a systematic scoping review

  2025 BMJ Open article Medicine Smoking Behavior and Cessation Open access

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• User Experiences With Digital Future-Self Interventions in the Contexts of Smoking and Physical Inactivity: Mixed Methods Multistudy Exploration

  2025 JMIR Formative Research article Medicine Smoking Behavior and Cessation Open access

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• Digital future-self interventions to promote physical activity: perspectives of minimally active middle-aged and older adults

  2025 Journal of Imagery Research in Sport and Physical Activity article Medicine Physical Activity and Health Open access

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• Feeling connected but dissimilar to one’s future self reduces the intention-behavior gap

  2024 PLoS ONE article Psychology Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research Open access

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• Adolescent Stressful Life Events Predict Future Self- Connectedness in Adulthood

  2023 The Journal of Early Adolescence article Psychology Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research Open access

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• A Novel Smartphone-Based Intervention Aimed at Increasing Future Orientation via the Future Self: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Prototype Application

  2023 Prevention Science article Psychology Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research Open access

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• My future-self has (not) quit smoking: An experimental study into the effect of a future-self intervention on smoking-related self-identity constructs

  2023 Social Science & Medicine article Medicine Smoking Behavior and Cessation Open access

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• A future orientation intervention delivered through a smartphone application and virtual reality: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

  2022 BMC Psychology article Psychology Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research Open access

  11

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• Stimulating a future-oriented mindset and goal attainment through a smartphone-based intervention: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

  2022 Internet Interventions article Psychology Digital Mental Health Interventions Open access

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• Interaction with the future self in virtual reality reduces self-defeating behavior in a sample of convicted offenders

  2022 Scientific Reports article Computer Science Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts Open access

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• Looking Back From the Future: Perspective Taking in Virtual Reality Increases Future Self-Continuity

  2021 Frontiers in Psychology article Psychology Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research Open access

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