The impact of perceived self-efficacy on mental time travel and social problem solving

► Manipulating self-identity causally impacts episodic memory and future thinking. ► Experimentally inducing high self-efficacy led to greater episodic specificity. ► Experimentally inducing high self-efficacy led to greater self-efficacy content. ► Experimentally inducing high self-efficacy led to better social problem solving (SPS). ► Lack of episodic future thinking predicted poorer performance on SPS tasks.