Nicole D. Montijn

The rosy future paradox: Positive future thinking without task relevance enhances negative biases and anxiety for aversive events

This study shows that task-relevant positive future thinking reduces stress and anxiety during a stressful task, while task-irrelevant positive thoughts increase stress reactivity and negative biases.

Structuring time: The hippocampus constructs sequence memories that generalize temporal relations across experiences

The effect of stress on memory for temporal context

This study investigates how acute stress affects temporal context memory, finding that stress increases memory generalization but does not significantly impact memory accuracy across different temporal granularities.