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Imagining our better selves

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How can we promote sustainable behaviours and reduce unsustainable ones? A new study explores potential neural mechanisms underlying thoughts about farsighted future actions.

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Fig. 1: The neural system that allows us to revisit the past also enables us to imagine the future.

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