题目：Future-Oriented Coping and Future-Orientation Conceptualization, Temporal Correlates, and Molecular Mechanism

报告人：甘怡群教授

甘怡群，1990年在北京大学心理学系获得学士学位，1993 年在北京大学心理学系获得硕士学位，1998香港中文大学心理学系获得博士学位。发表了80余篇研究论文，其中27篇为以第一作者或通讯作者身份发表的SSCI收录的英文期刊。目前任中国心理学会心理测量分会理事，国际SSCI期刊“Applied Psychology：Health and Well-being”编委《心理科学进展》编委，《中国心理卫生杂志》常务编委,《中国临床心理学杂志》编委.同时也是22个国际性学术期刊的审稿人。研究领域集中在应对、心理健康和工作倦怠方面。

时间：2015年09月01日 星期二 14:00-15:00

地点： 中科院心理所南楼三层会议室

In a world full of changes and crises, future-oriented coping strategies are especially useful to effectively cope with challenges and sustain well-being. Psychologists have made unique contributions to promote such behaviors. Future-oriented coping is regarded as a positive mental quality associated with greater happiness, life satisfaction, and personal growth.In this talk, we broaden our understanding of future-oriented coping by proposing an antecedent, temporal discounting, using three research paradigms: delayed discounting, task prioritization, and time-interval perception. We found that future-oriented coping involves understanding temporal distance and accurately perceiving the importance of future events. This temporal Doppler effect was magnified in a positive effect priming. We then demonstrated the molecular mechanism of future orientation by the main effects and GXE interactive effects of four DRD SNPs. In one allele, higher number of early negative life events predicted higher future orientation. Similar findings were replicated in the case of control deprivation priming. Based on these findings, we proposed a sequential model of future-oriented coping, in which temporal discounting and future orientation serve as antecedents. Suggestions for future research inspired by this framework are also discussed.