Prospection

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Prospection is defined by psychologist Daniel Gilbert in his novel Stumbling on Happiness as "The act of looking forward in time or considering the future" (Gilbert 2006:1). It has also been used for several years in the field of Futures Studies, where futurist Joseph Voros defined it to be "the activity of purposefully looking forward [i.e. into the future] in order to create forward views and/or images of the future" (see, e.g., Voros 2003, 2005, 2006).

[edit] See also

• Affective forecasting
• Prospecting

[edit] Sources

• Gilbert, Daniel (2006). Stumbling on Happiness. New York: Knopf. ISBN 1-4000-4266-6. 
• Voros, Joseph (2003). "A generic foresight process framework". Foresight 5 (3): 10--21. doi:10.1108/14636680310698379. ISSN 1463-6689. 
• Voros, Joseph (2005). "Speaking about the future: 'Pro-vocation and 'ante-diction'". Futures 37 (1): 87--96. doi:10.1016/j.futures.2004.03.022. ISSN 0016-3287. 
• Voros, Joseph (2006). "Introducing a classification framework for prospective methods". Foresight 8 (2): 43--56. doi:10.1108/14636680610656174. ISSN 1463-6689. 

[edit] External links

• Gilbert's Lab Homepage
• Stumbling on Happiness
• Joseph Voros university staff bio