There are different aspects of future thinking that would be interesting to continue studying.
Future research could for example investigate whether scores of the FTT index are responsive
to treatment in face-to-face treatments and whether the number of positive future events can
be increased by behavioural activation, problems solving therapy, mindfulness and/or
medication. Other patient groups and treatment formats could also be investigated to see if the
FTT can be influenced by treatment.
Future research could also investigate FTT and AMT in relation to the different biological
markers. FTT and AMT are known as two established paradigms that measure two aspects of
cognition in different ways. It would be interesting to measure both the number of specific
memories generated in a cued task (which is now done in FFT), and to look at the specificity
of future thinking rather than just the number (which is done in AMT). In other words it is
possible that differences in test format shadow the correlation between AMT and FTT and
that it may be stronger.