Time pervades every aspect of people's lives. Humans are all affected by remnants of pasts, assessments of presents, and forecasts of futures. The thoughts, feelings, and behaviors over time inexorably intertwine and intermingle, determining varied reactions such as affect and emotions, as well as future behaviors. The purpose of this volume is to bring together the diverse theory and research on work related to people's judgments over time. To date, much theory and research on temporal variables wi ... More

Time pervades every aspect of people's lives. Humans are all affected by remnants of pasts, assessments of presents, and forecasts of futures. The thoughts, feelings, and behaviors over time inexorably intertwine and intermingle, determining varied reactions such as affect and emotions, as well as future behaviors. The purpose of this volume is to bring together the diverse theory and research on work related to people's judgments over time. To date, much theory and research on temporal variables within psychology has remained somewhat fragmented, isolated, and even provincial—researchers in particular domains are either unaware of or are paying little attention to each other's work. Integrating the theory and research into a single volume brings about a greater awareness and appreciation of conceptual relations between seemingly disparate topics, defines and promotes the state of scientific knowledge in these areas, and sets the agenda for future work. This book presents the two main ways of looking at judgments over time: looking at how people's thoughts about the future and the past affect their present states, and looking at the interplay over time among people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.