Future Anticipation Craving

A Future Anticipation Craving is a craving state that involves intense desire for upcoming events or future experiences with positive expectation.

• AKA: Anticipatory Yearning, Future-Oriented Craving, Prospective Desire State.
• Context:
  • It can typically generate approach motivation toward future goals.
  • It can typically enhance planning behavior through goal visualization.
  • It can typically create temporal impatience for event arrival.
  • It can typically involve mental simulation of future scenarios.
  • It can often produce anticipatory pleasure through imagined outcomes.
  • It can often influence present behavior through future rewards.
  • It can often accelerate subjective time perception through eager waiting.
  • It can range from being a Near Future Craving to being a Distant Future Craving, depending on its temporal distance.
  • It can range from being a Certain Future Craving to being an Uncertain Future Craving, depending on its probability assessment.
  • It can range from being a Specific Future Craving to being a Vague Future Craving, depending on its detail clarity.
  • It can range from being a Realistic Future Craving to being a Fantasy Future Craving, depending on its feasibility level.
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• Example(s):
  • Event Anticipation Cravings, such as:
    • Vacation Anticipation Craving for planned trips.
    • Concert Anticipation Craving for scheduled performances.
    • Reunion Anticipation Craving for social gatherings.
  • Achievement Anticipation Cravings, such as:
    • Graduation Anticipation Craving for milestone completion.
    • Promotion Anticipation Craving for career advancement.
  • Experience Anticipation Cravings, such as:
    • First Date Anticipation Craving for romantic possibilities.
    • Product Launch Craving for new releases.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Moment Return Craving, which involves past orientation.
  • Present Moment Satisfaction, which lacks future focus.
  • Future Dread, which involves negative anticipation.
• See: Craving State, Anticipatory Emotion, Future Orientation, Goal Pursuit, Temporal Emotional State, Hope, Expectation, Moment Return Craving, Prospective Memory, Delayed Gratification.

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