Capacity for simulation and mitigation drives hedonic and non-hedonic time biases

Until recently, philosophers have supposed that people exhibit a first-person hedonic bias toward the future, but their non-hedonic and third-person preferences are time-neutral. Recent empirical work, however, suggests our more nuanced. There is evidence time-neutrality only when individual with respect to whom we preferences—the preference target—is random stranger about know nothing. The simulation hypothesis proposes mirror can simulate mental states of target. also prefer negative events be in past view as not under control. When perceive it within power mitigate badness future events, negatively hedonically past-biased. This mitigation hypothesis. We distinguish two versions hypothesis, squirrelling version heuristic version. ran study which tested aimed determine whether or enjoys support. found support for