Cole, Dr Scott

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Cole, Dr Scott

Email:

s.cole1@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Psychological & Social Sciences

Address:

York St.John University, York, YO13 7EX. United Kingdom

Country:

United Kingdom

Homepage:

https://www.yorksj.ac.uk/health--life-sciences/faculty-of-hls/staff-contact-details/psychology-staff/scott-cole.aspx

Biography

Expertise:

memory, future thinking, prospection, brain injury, Neuropsychology, autobiographical memory

Job title:

Lecturer in Psychology

Biography:

Scott Cole is a Lecturer in Psychology with expertise in Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology. Scott completed his BSc in Psychology at the University of Liverpool in 2003. After some time teaching in China, he completed a Masters in Memory and its Disorders from the University of Leeds whilst working as a Rehabilitation Support Worker for the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust. After a one year period working as an Assistant Psychologist for the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Trust in Sussex, he returned to Leeds to complete a PhD in ‘Cognitive and mnemonic characteristics of Episodic Future Thinking’. He also spent a year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow working at the Centre on Autobiographical Memory in Aarhus, Denmark. He joined York St John University as a Lecturer in September 2015more...

Qualifications:

PhD, Psychology (Leeds) MSc, Memory and Its Disorders (Leeds) BSc, Psychology (Liverpool)

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Duffy, Jessica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8159-8776, Salt, Grace, Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X, Charura, Divine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3509-9392 and Shevchenko, Jennifer (2025) Anxiety and Future-Self Clarity: Can Future Thinking Influence Self-Esteem? Psychological Reports.
Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X, Szpunar, Karl, Benoit, Roland, Bastin, Christine, Schacter, Daniel, Rafal, Robert and Turnbull, Oliver (2025) Emotional past and future events after pulvinar damage: A neuropsychological case series. Cortex, 184. pp. 221-235.
Duffy, Jessica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8159-8776, Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X, Charura, Divine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3509-9392 and Shevchenko, Jennifer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8717-0437 (2024) Anxiety, Self-Satisfaction and Self-Defining Events: Exploring the Inter-Related Dimensions of the Self. Identity. pp. 1-13.
Clayton McClure, Jack Helgi, Elwell, Charlotte, Jones, Theo, Mirkovic, Jelena and Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X (2024) On Second Thoughts: Testing the Underlying Mechanisms of Spontaneous Future Thought. Cognition, 250 (105863).
Duffy, Jessica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8159-8776, Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X, Charura, Divine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3509-9392 and Shevchenko, Jennifer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8717-0437 (2024) Depression and looming cognitive style: Examining the mediating effect of perceived control. Journal of Affective Disorders Reports, 15. p. 100698.
Pittelkow, Merle-Marie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7487-7898, Field, Sarahanne M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7874-1261, Isager, Peder M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6922-3590, van’t Veer, Anna E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2733-1841, Anderson, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2387-5219, Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X, Dominik, Tomáš ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3004-8710, Giner-Sorolla, Roger ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6690-8842, Gok, Sebahat, Heyman, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0565-441X, Jekel, Marc ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9146-0306, Luke, Timothy J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5513-6605, Mitchell, David B., Peels, Rik ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8107-5992, Pendrous, Rosina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9085-9876, Sarrazin, Samuel, Schauer, Jacob M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9041-7082, Specker, Eva ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0836-045X, Tran, Ulrich S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6589-3167, Vranka, Marek A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3413-9062, Wicherts, Jelte M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2415-2933, Yoshimura, Naoto ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2656-4432, Zwaan, Rolf A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9967-7879 and van Ravenzwaaij, Don ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5030-4091 (2023) The process of replication target selection in psychology: what to consider? Royal Society Open Science, 10 (2).
Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X, Markostamou, Ioanna, Watson, Lynn, Barzykowski, Krystian, Ergen, İrem, Taylor, Andrea and Öner, Sezin (2022) Spontaneous past and future thinking about the COVID-19 pandemic across 14 countries: Effects of individual and country-level COVID-19 impact indicators. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 12 (4). pp. 502-512.
Clayton McClure, Jack Helgi and Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X (2022) Controllability is key: Goal pursuit during COVID‐19 and insights for theories of self‐regulation. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 52 (12). pp. 1196-1210.
Öner, Sezin, Watson, Lynn Ann, Adıgüzel, Zeynep, Ergen, İrem, Bilgin, Ezgi, Curci, Antonietta, Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X, de la Mata, Manuel L., Janssen, Steve M. J., Lanciano, Tiziana, Markostamou, Ioanna, Nourkova, Veronika, Santamaría, Andrés, Taylor, Andrea, Barzykowski, Krystian, Bascón, Miguel, Bermeitinger, Christina, Cubero-Pérez, Rosario, Dessenberger, Steven, Garry, Maryanne, Gülgöz, Sami, Hackländer, Ryan, Heux, Lucrèce, Jin, Zheng, Lojo, María, Matías-García, José Antonio, Roediger, Henry L., Szpunar, Karl, Tekin, Eylul and Uner, Oyku (2022) Collective remembering and future forecasting during the COVID-19 pandemic: How the impact of COVID-19 affected the themes and phenomenology of global and national memories across 15 countries. Memory & Cognition, 51. pp. 729-751.
Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X and Tubbs, Peter M. C. (2021) Predictors of obsessive–compulsive symptomology: mind wandering about the past and future. Psychological Research.

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1	Synthesizing the Effects of Mental Simulation on Behavior Change: Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis	188	103
2	Do future thoughts reflect personal goals? Current concerns and mental time travel into the past and future	164
3	The remembering-imagining system	160	286
4	Amnesia and future thinking: Exploring the role of memory in the quantity and quality of episodic future thoughts	159	332
5	Implausible Future Events in a Confabulating Patient with an Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm	153	144
6	Is obesity linked with episodic memory impairment? A commentary on Cheke, Simons & Clayton (2016)	151	66
7	Spontaneous future cognition: The past, present and future of an emerging topic	144	43
8	Inducing involuntary and voluntary mental time travel using a laboratory paradigm	143	26
9	Mental time travel: Effects of trial duration on episodic and semantic content	120
10	Imagining possible selves across time: Characteristics of self-images and episodic thoughts	114	327