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Recent research in the area of judgment and decision making points out an important role of visual mental imagery in guiding an action in risky and uncertain situations (Sobkow et al. 2016; Traczyk et al., 2015; Zaleskiewicz et al., 2020). Future and decision-related mental imagery allows people to try out, in safe circumstances, the potential consequences and conditions of making choices (Blackwell, 2020). Moreover, it is widely accepted in scientific literature that while imagining, people experience emotions possibly related to visualized situations (Blackwell, 2020; Holmes & Mathews, 2010). It is an important premise, as the field of judgment and decision making, provides empirical evidence that integral emotions play a crucial role in making choices, especially in risk and uncertainty (Lerner et al., 2015; Loewenstein et al., 2001). In the present study, we assume to find a positive correlation between the valence of decision-related mental imagery and ratings of willingness to take an action. |
