The FTT is a test adapted from a verbal fluency paradigm
(MacLeod et al. 1993). The participant is asked to name as
many things as possible that they believe are going to
happen in three separate future time-periods—the next
week, the next year, and the next 5–10 years. Both positive
and negative future events are asked for. The participant is
given 1 min in each test condition to generate as many
future events as possible during the specified time period.
The time periods are presented in a fixed order (next week,
next year, and upcoming 5–10 years). When both positive
and negative future events have been generated for the
three time periods the participant is also asked to rate the
likelihood (rated between 1 and 7 with a higher rating
indicating more likely) for each event actually happening