| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 476 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Summary |
"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."--Jacket. |
| Contents |
Section 1. The mental simulation of action and behavior -- section 2. Mental simulation and memory -- section 3. Counterfactual thinking : simulating the past -- section 4. Alternatives and alternate selves -- section 5. Perspective taking : simulating other minds -- section 6. Simulating and preparing for the future. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Imagination.
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Imagination. |
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Imagination -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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| Genre/Form |
Handbooks and manuals.
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Electronic books.
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Handbooks and manuals.
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| Added Author |
Markman, Keith D. (Keith Douglas), 1967-
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Klein, William Martin, 1966-
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Suhr, Julie A.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Handbook of imagination and mental simulation. New York : Psychology Press, ©2009 9781841698878 1841698873 (DLC) 2008016089 (OCoLC)222134918 |
| ISBN |
9781841698885 (electronic book) |
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1841698881 (electronic book) |
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9781136678103 (electronic book) |
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1136678107 (electronic book) |
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1841698873 (Cloth) |
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9781841698878 (alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786611941017 |
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2828386 |
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