Do collective crises have an impact on the characteristics of mental time travel for individuals and collectives? The COVID-19 pandemic provides a unique context to address this question due to the intersection it created between the personal and the collective domains. In two studies (N = 273), we examined the valence and perceived agency involved in memory and future thinking for personal and collective domains. The second study also included a longitudinal component with 43 participants completing both studies. In research done prior to the pandemic, a valence-based dissociation between personal and collective events was consistently observed in Western samples. We wanted to see if these patterns changed during different stages of the pandemic. In the first study, participants no longer exhibited the usual positivity bias for the personal future, while in the second study, they did not exhibit the usual negativity bias for the collective future. The second aim of the current article was to assess the agency people attribute to themselves and their nation over events and how that relates to valence. People always attributed more agency to themselves over positive events than negative events in both personal and collective domains. Perceived nation agency, however, was associated with positivity in the collective domain but with negativity in the personal domain. Longitudinal analyses confirmed these patterns. Taken together, these results indicate that a collective crisis that has immediate and profound effects on personal lives can alter the patterns observed for mental time travel, especially for the future. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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当个人和集体相交时：COVID-19 大流行期间的记忆、未来思维和感知机构。


集体危机对个人和集体的心理时间旅行特征有影响吗？由于新冠肺炎 (COVID-19) 大流行在个人领域和集体领域之间产生了交叉点，因此它为解决这个问题提供了独特的背景。在两项研究 (N = 273) 中，我们检查了个人和集体领域的记忆和未来思维所涉及的效价和感知机构。第二项研究还包括纵向部分，有 43 名参与者完成了这两项研究。在大流行之前进行的研究中，在西方样本中始终观察到个人事件和集体事件之间基于价的分离。我们想看看这些模式在大流行的不同阶段是否发生了变化。在第一项研究中，参与者不再对个人未来表现出通常的积极偏见，而在第二项研究中，他们不再对集体未来表现出通常的消极偏见。本文的第二个目的是评估人们在事件中对自己和国家的评价，以及它与效价的关系。在个人和集体领域，人们总是将积极事件比消极事件更多地归因于自己。然而，被感知的国家机构与集体领域的积极性相关，但与个人领域的消极性相关。纵向分析证实了这些模式。总而言之，这些结果表明，对个人生活产生直接而深远影响的集体危机可能会改变观察到的心理时间旅行模式，尤其是未来的时间旅行模式。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。