Enhancing Self-Functioning in College Students: Mental Time Travel through VR

This study adopted a repeated-measures design to investigate whether (a) recalling and projecting birthday events (i.e., mental time travel, MTT) enhances college students’ self-functioning and (b) virtual reality (vs. PC) promotes self-functions and thinking qualities. MTT improved self-functioning across modalities. VR heightened recollection qualities like vividness, self-liking, and task engagement.