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Handbook of imagination and mental simulation / edited by Keith D. Markman, William M.P. Klein, Julie A. Suhr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Psychology Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xix, 476 pages.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780203809846 (electronic bk.)
  • 020380984X (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 153.3 22
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Contents:
Overview -- List of contributors -- Section 1: Mental Simulation Of Action And Behavior: -- Chapter 1: Action representation and its role in social interaction / Jean Decety and Jennifer A Stevens -- Chapter 2: Expertise and the mental simulation of action / Sian L Beilock and Ian M Lyons -- Chapter 3: Mental imagery and implicit memory / Stephen M Kosslyn and Samuel T Moulton -- Chapter 4: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image: the distance-dependence of representation / Elinor Amit, Daniel Algom, Yaacov Trope, and Nira Liberman -- Chapter 5: Implementation intentions: the mental representation and cognitive procedures of If-Then Planning / Tanya S Faude-Koivisto, Daniela Wuerz, and Peter M Gollwitzer -- Section 2: Mental Simulation And Memory: -- Chapter 6: False memories: the role of plausibility and autobiographical belief / Daniel M Bernstein, Ryan D Godfrey, and Elizabeth F Loftus -- Chapter 7: Hypnosis and memory: from Bernheim to the present / Steven Jay Lynn, Abigail Matthews, and Sean Barnes -- Chapter 8: Episodic future thought: remembering the past to imagine the future / Karl K Szpunar and Kathleen B McDermott -- Chapter 9: Temporally asymmetric constraints on mental simulation: retrospection is more constrained than prospection / Leaf Van Boven, Joanne Kane, and A Peter McGraw -- Section 3: Counterfactual Thinking: Simulating The Past: -- Chapter 10: Cognitive processes in counterfactual thinking / Ruth M J Byrne and Vittorio Girotto -- Chapter 11: Counterfactual Mind-Set: A Decade of Research / Elaine M Wong, Adam D Galinsky, and Laura J Kray -- Chapter 12: Counterfactual thinking: function and dysfunction / Keith D Markman, Figen Karadogan, Matthew J Lindberg, and Ethan Zell.
Section 4: Alternatives And Alternate Selves: -- Chapter 13: It's hard to imagine: mental simulation, metacognitive experiences, and the success of debiasing / Lawrence J Sanna, Norbert Schwarz, and Lindsay A Kennedy -- Chapter 14: Children's imaginary companions: what is it like to have an invisible friend? / Marjorie Taylor, Alison B Shawber, Anne M Mannering -- Chapter 15: Daydreaming and fantasizing: thought flow and motivation / Eric Klinger -- Chapter 16: Simulated worlds: transportation into narratives / Melanie C Green and John K Donahue -- Section 5: Perspective-Taking: Simulating Other Minds: -- Chapter 17: Happiness of the fish: evidence for a common theory of one's own and others' actions / Rebecca Saxe -- Chapter 18: Two forms of perspective taking: imagining how another feels and imagining how you would feel / C Daniel Batson -- Chapter 19: Making it up and making do: simulation, imagination, and empathic accuracy / Michael W Myers and Sara D Hodges -- Chapter 20: Perspective taking: misstepping into others' shoes / Nicholas Epley and Eugene M Caruso -- Section 6: Simulating And Preparing For The Future: -- Chapter 21: Imagining a rosy future: the psychology of optimism / William M P Klein and Laura E Zajac -- Chapter 22: On the excessive rationality of the emotional imagination: a two-systems account of affective forecasts and experiences / Elizabeth W Dunn, Noah D Forrin, and Claire E Ashton-James -- Chapter 23: Subjective proximity of future of selves: implications for current identity, future appraisal, and goal pursuit motivation / Wei Qi Elaine Perunovic and Anne E Wilson -- Chapter 24: Seeing the links among the personal past, present, and future: how imagery perspective in mental simulation functions in defining the temporally extended self / Lisa K Libby and Richard P Eibach -- Chapter 25: Possible selves: from content to process / Daphna Oyserman and Leah James -- Chapter 26: Mental contrasting of the future and reality to master negative feedback / Gabriele Oettingen and Andreas Kappes -- Chapter 27: On the consequences of mentally simulating future foregone outcomes: a regret regulation perspective / Marcel Zeelenberg and Rik Pieters -- Chapter 28: Preparedness, mental simulations, and future outlooks / Patrick Carroll and James A Shepperd -- Author index -- Subject index.
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Overview -- List of contributors -- Section 1: Mental Simulation Of Action And Behavior: -- Chapter 1: Action representation and its role in social interaction / Jean Decety and Jennifer A Stevens -- Chapter 2: Expertise and the mental simulation of action / Sian L Beilock and Ian M Lyons -- Chapter 3: Mental imagery and implicit memory / Stephen M Kosslyn and Samuel T Moulton -- Chapter 4: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image: the distance-dependence of representation / Elinor Amit, Daniel Algom, Yaacov Trope, and Nira Liberman -- Chapter 5: Implementation intentions: the mental representation and cognitive procedures of If-Then Planning / Tanya S Faude-Koivisto, Daniela Wuerz, and Peter M Gollwitzer -- Section 2: Mental Simulation And Memory: -- Chapter 6: False memories: the role of plausibility and autobiographical belief / Daniel M Bernstein, Ryan D Godfrey, and Elizabeth F Loftus -- Chapter 7: Hypnosis and memory: from Bernheim to the present / Steven Jay Lynn, Abigail Matthews, and Sean Barnes -- Chapter 8: Episodic future thought: remembering the past to imagine the future / Karl K Szpunar and Kathleen B McDermott -- Chapter 9: Temporally asymmetric constraints on mental simulation: retrospection is more constrained than prospection / Leaf Van Boven, Joanne Kane, and A Peter McGraw -- Section 3: Counterfactual Thinking: Simulating The Past: -- Chapter 10: Cognitive processes in counterfactual thinking / Ruth M J Byrne and Vittorio Girotto -- Chapter 11: Counterfactual Mind-Set: A Decade of Research / Elaine M Wong, Adam D Galinsky, and Laura J Kray -- Chapter 12: Counterfactual thinking: function and dysfunction / Keith D Markman, Figen Karadogan, Matthew J Lindberg, and Ethan Zell.

Section 4: Alternatives And Alternate Selves: -- Chapter 13: It's hard to imagine: mental simulation, metacognitive experiences, and the success of debiasing / Lawrence J Sanna, Norbert Schwarz, and Lindsay A Kennedy -- Chapter 14: Children's imaginary companions: what is it like to have an invisible friend? / Marjorie Taylor, Alison B Shawber, Anne M Mannering -- Chapter 15: Daydreaming and fantasizing: thought flow and motivation / Eric Klinger -- Chapter 16: Simulated worlds: transportation into narratives / Melanie C Green and John K Donahue -- Section 5: Perspective-Taking: Simulating Other Minds: -- Chapter 17: Happiness of the fish: evidence for a common theory of one's own and others' actions / Rebecca Saxe -- Chapter 18: Two forms of perspective taking: imagining how another feels and imagining how you would feel / C Daniel Batson -- Chapter 19: Making it up and making do: simulation, imagination, and empathic accuracy / Michael W Myers and Sara D Hodges -- Chapter 20: Perspective taking: misstepping into others' shoes / Nicholas Epley and Eugene M Caruso -- Section 6: Simulating And Preparing For The Future: -- Chapter 21: Imagining a rosy future: the psychology of optimism / William M P Klein and Laura E Zajac -- Chapter 22: On the excessive rationality of the emotional imagination: a two-systems account of affective forecasts and experiences / Elizabeth W Dunn, Noah D Forrin, and Claire E Ashton-James -- Chapter 23: Subjective proximity of future of selves: implications for current identity, future appraisal, and goal pursuit motivation / Wei Qi Elaine Perunovic and Anne E Wilson -- Chapter 24: Seeing the links among the personal past, present, and future: how imagery perspective in mental simulation functions in defining the temporally extended self / Lisa K Libby and Richard P Eibach -- Chapter 25: Possible selves: from content to process / Daphna Oyserman and Leah James -- Chapter 26: Mental contrasting of the future and reality to master negative feedback / Gabriele Oettingen and Andreas Kappes -- Chapter 27: On the consequences of mentally simulating future foregone outcomes: a regret regulation perspective / Marcel Zeelenberg and Rik Pieters -- Chapter 28: Preparedness, mental simulations, and future outlooks / Patrick Carroll and James A Shepperd -- Author index -- Subject index.

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