I have conducted research on future-oriented cognition for the past 22 years. I seek to better understand how we can maintain competing motives such as attending to an ongoing conversation while maintaining in mind an intention to carry out a future action and how these motives compete for attention and shape people’s judgments, choices, and behaviors. I am widely cited in my field and some of this work can be found in leading journals such as Memory and Cognition, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, Applied Cognitive Psychology, and Memory.
In 2017, I co-authored a book on memory for future action titled Prospective Memory: Remembering to Remember, Remembering to Forget (link) published by Springer Nature.
In a recent paper, my co-authors and I showed that when we create a representation for a future action that we intend to carry out, we may later mistakenly misattribute that intention as memory for actual performance.
Cohen, A-L., Silverstein, M. J., Derksen, D. G., Hamzagic, Z. I., Lindsay, D.S. & Bernstein, D. M. (2020). Future planning may promote false memories. Journal of Applied Research on Memory and Cognition, 9, 242-253. (link)