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Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation

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Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation

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Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation

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Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation book

Edited ByKeith D. Markman, William M. P. Klein, Julie A. Suhr
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2008
eBook Published 11 December 2008
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Psychology Press
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203809846
Pages 488
eBook ISBN 9780203809846
Subjects Behavioral Sciences
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Markman, K.D., Klein, W.M.P., & Suhr, J.A. (Eds.). (2009). Handbook of Imagination and Mental Simulation (1st ed.). Psychology Press. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203809846

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

chapter 4|16 pages

“Thou.Shalt.Not.Make.Unto.Thee.Any.Graven.Image”:.The.Distance. Dependence.of.Representation

chapter 5|18 pages

Implementation.Intentions:.The.Mental.Representations.and.Cognitive. Procedures.of.If-Then.Planning

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

chapter 9|18 pages

Temporally.Asymmetric.Constraints.on.Mental.Simulation:.Retrospection.Is. More.Constrained.Than.Prospection

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 13|14 pages

It’s.Hard.to.Imagine:.Mental.Simulation,.Metacognitive.Experiences,.and.the. Success.of.Debiasing

chapter 14|14 pages

Children’s.Imaginary.Companions:.What.Is.It.Like.to.Have.an.Invisible. Friend?

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 17|10 pages

The.Happiness.of.the.Fish:.Evidence.for.a.Common.Theory.of.One’s.Own.and. Others’.Actions

chapter 18|14 pages

Two.Forms.of.Perspective.Taking:.Imagining.How.Another.Feels.and. Imagining.How.You.Would.Feel

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

chapter 21|18 pages

Imagining.a.Rosy.Future:.The.Psychology.of.Optimism

chapter 22|16 pages

On.the.Excessive.Rationality.of.the.Emotional.Imagination:.A.Two-Systems. Account.of.Affective.Forecasts.and.Experiences

chapter 23|12 pages

Subjective.Proximity.of.Future.Selves:.Implications.for.Current.Identity,. Future.Appraisal,.and.Goal.Pursuit.Motivation

chapter 24|14 pages

Seeing.the.Links.Among.the.Personal.Past,.Present,.and.Future:.How.Imagery. Perspective.in.Mental.Simulation.Functions.in.Defining.the.Temporally. Extended.Self

chapter 25|22 pages

Possible.Selves:.From.Content.to.Process

chapter 26|18 pages

Mental.Contrasting.of.the.Future.and.Reality.to.Master.Negative.Feedback

chapter 27|12 pages

On.the.Consequences.of.Mentally.Simulating.Future.Foregone.Outcomes:. A.Regret.Regulation.Perspective

chapter 28|16 pages

Preparedness,.Mental.Simulations,.and.Future.Outlooks

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