While backward vection prompted thinking about the past, forward vection triggered a preponderance of future-oriented thoughts.
For example, in the general population, approximately half of all involuntary memories may be positive (Berntsen, 1996; Berntsen & Jacobsen, 2008), and in a healthy sample, spontaneous future-oriented thoughts were reported as more frequently positive than negative (D'Argembeau, Renaud, & Van der Linden, 2011).
Specifically, whereas backward vection was expected to trigger participants to dwell on the past, forward vection was expected to precipitate predominantly future-oriented thoughts.
However, the timing of attempts to encourage future-oriented thoughts, and shifting attention to the next pregnancy, had the opposite effect intended by physicians.
If the likelihood of an event returning as a later 'flashback', whether positive or negative, can be affected significantly by simple laboratory tasks, what is the impact on our experiences of spontaneous memories or future-oriented thoughts of the kinds of tasks that we engage in during everyday life?
But there was a future-oriented attitude to "S.N.L".
One can lament this "progress" of modern democratic politics, away from rewarding real merit based on past achievement, toward a present-oriented shallowness and a future-oriented wishfulness.
"If we do not become a future-oriented, solutions-oriented Republican Party, we are going to be in wilderness for a long, long time".
"I visited the shrine wishing to firmly create peace for Japan and the world from a future-oriented perspective".
"We live in a future-oriented society, which tends to lose its past very quickly," he added.
This is an enduring fault line in the nature of medicine itself — is it a future-oriented science or is it a present-rooted, caring practice?
