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.
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