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Name:

Cole, 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)

My Latest

Shevchenko, Jennifer, Ji, Julie L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1688-9708, Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X, Renner, Fritz and Hallford, David J. (2025) Investigating the effect of mental imagery-based future episodic simulation on subsequent behavioral engagement in depressed, dysphoric, and nondepressed individuals. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition.
Oner, Sezin, Szpunar, Karl, Watson, Lynn Ann and Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X (2025) Spatial Optimism in Individuals' Future Thinking about the COVID-19 Pandemic. Applied Cognitive Psychology. (In Press)
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 (2025) Efficacy of the Best Possible Self intervention for generalised anxiety: exploration of mediators and moderators. The Journal of Positive Psychology. pp. 1-12.
Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X and Charura, Divine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3509-9392 (2025) The Dire Need to Examine Relationships Between Prospection and Subtypes of Anxiety. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 14 (1). pp. 24-29.
O'Brien, Charlotte ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9903-3325, Akeel, Aisha, McCormick, Grace, Cole, Scott ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8176-283X and Charura, Divine ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3509-9392 (2025) Global Approaches to Supporting Mental Health and Resettlement for Veterans With Embodied Trauma: A Comprehensive Scoping Review. Counselling and Psychotherapy Research, 25 (1).
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.

My Most Viewed

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1	Synthesizing the Effects of Mental Simulation on Behavior Change: Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis	211	109
2	Amnesia and future thinking: Exploring the role of memory in the quantity and quality of episodic future thoughts	196	360
3	Implausible Future Events in a Confabulating Patient with an Anterior Communicating Artery Aneurysm	191	163
4	The remembering-imagining system	184	310
5	Do future thoughts reflect personal goals? Current concerns and mental time travel into the past and future	184
6	Spontaneous future cognition: The past, present and future of an emerging topic	172	49
7	Is obesity linked with episodic memory impairment? A commentary on Cheke, Simons & Clayton (2016)	171	72
8	Inducing involuntary and voluntary mental time travel using a laboratory paradigm	159	30
9	Mental time travel: Effects of trial duration on episodic and semantic content	137
10	Imagining possible selves across time: Characteristics of self-images and episodic thoughts	132	342