ABSTRACT
Differences in characterizations are the stuff of novels, biographies, histories and real life. As aspects of personality or character, there is strength of will and weakness of will. Further, as part of someone's characterization, although not part of their personality or character, there are emotions and moods. Thus one's personality and, more broadly, one's characterization is intimately related to, and can significantly influence, one's emotional responses. For each sort of emotional experience there will be a paradigmatic narrative structure—perceptions, beliefs, motivational thoughts and feelings, bodily changes, facial and other expressions, action, and so forth. This chapter argues that working in tandem with the body of information, there remains an important place for perceptual imagination— perceptual imagination without imaginative identification. It looks at an example involving the emotions and prediction to see how acentral imagining and body of information can be made to work in tandem.
