Future-Minded

Magda Osman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. Her research interests include causal reasoning, problem-solving, learning and vision, and she is currently Associate Editor for Experimental Psychology, and consults on several national and international research councils.

'A wonderfully original and masterly overview of how we think about our influence on the world and about how we sometimes develop delusional beliefs about ourselves as agents in the world. Osman is a pioneer in this fast-developing field and has written a clear and lucid book.' - David Shanks, Professor of Psychology, University College London, UK 'An extremely interesting book that conveys some very complex concepts and experiments in a very accessible way. The book is engaging and, unusually for a psychological text, difficult to put down.' - Richard J. Tunney, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Nottingham, UK

• 1. Agency and Control: Psychological Tools for Making the Future2. Agency: Claiming Future Events as Our Own3. Control: Achieving and Maintaining a Desirable Future4. Causality and Coincidence: Joining the Past to the Present and the Future5. Consciousness: Mental Episodes of the Past, Present and Future6. Illusion of Control and Illusion of Chaos: Mistaking Future Consequences7. Goals and Values: Ways of Anchoring the Future8. Understanding Human Behaviour from the Point of View of the Future is the Future of Psychological Research.