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Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation
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ABSTRACT
Over the past thirty years, and particularly within the last ten years, researchers in the areas of social psychology, cognitive psychology, clinical psychology, and neuroscience have been examining fascinating questions regarding the nature of imagination and mental simulation – the imagination and generation of alternative realities. Some of these researchers have focused on the specific processes that occur in the brain when an individual is mentally simulating an action or forming a mental image, whereas others have focused on the consequences of mental simulation processes for affect, cognition, motivation, and behavior.
This Handbook provides a novel and stimulating integration of work on imagination and mental simulation from a variety of perspectives. It is the first broad-based volume to integrate specific sub-areas such as mental imagery, imagination, thought flow, narrative transportation, fantasizing, and counterfactual thinking, which have, until now, been treated by researchers as disparate and orthogonal lines of inquiry. As such, the volume enlightens psychologists to the notion that a wide-range of mental simulation phenomena may actually share a commonality of underlying processes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Section I The Mental Simulation of Action and Behavior
chapter 1|18 pages
Action.Representation.and.Its.Role.in.Social.Interaction
chapter 2|14 pages
Expertise.and.the.Mental.Simulation.of.Action
chapter 3|18 pages
Mental.Imagery.and.Implicit.Memory
part |2 pages
Section II Mental Simulation and Memory
chapter 6|14 pages
False.Memories:.The.Role.of.Plausibility.and.Autobiographical.Belief
chapter 7|16 pages
Hypnosis.and.Memory:.From.Bernheim.to.the.Present
chapter 8|12 pages
Episodic.Future.Thought:.Remembering.the.Past.to.Imagine.the.Future
part |2 pages
Section III Counterfactual Thinking: Simulating the Past
chapter 10|10 pages
Cognitive.Processes.in.Counterfactual.Thinking
chapter 11|14 pages
The.Counterfactual.Mind-Set:.A.Decade.of.Research
chapter 12|20 pages
Counterfactual.Thinking:.Function.and.Dysfunction
part |2 pages
Section IV Alternatives and Alternate Selves
chapter 15|16 pages
Daydreaming.and.Fantasizing:.Thought.Flow.and.Motivation
chapter 16|14 pages
Simulated.Worlds:.Transportation.Into.Narratives
part |2 pages
Section V Perspective Taking: Simulating Other Minds
chapter 19|14 pages
Making.It.Up.and.Making.Do:.Simulation,.Imagination,.and.Empathic. Accuracy
chapter 20|16 pages
Perspective.Taking:.Misstepping.Into.Others’.Shoes
part |2 pages
Section VI Simulating and Preparing for the Future