The devil is in the details: Comparisons of episodic simulations of positive and negative future events
| Autor: | Karl K. Szpunar, Vannia A. Puig |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Memory
Episodic Emotions 05 social sciences Confounding Level of detail (writing) Event cognition Confounding Factors Epidemiologic Context (language use) PsycINFO 050105 experimental psychology Thinking Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cognitive resource theory Mental Recall Imagination Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Psychology Social psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery General Psychology Forecasting Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Emotion. 17:867-873 |
| ISSN: | 1931-1516 1528-3542 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/emo0000294 |
| Popis: | Over the past decade, psychologists have devoted considerable attention to episodic simulation-the ability to imagine specific hypothetical events. Perhaps one of the most consistent patterns of data to emerge from this literature is that positive simulations of the future are rated as more detailed than negative simulations of the future, a pattern of results that is commonly interpreted as evidence for a positivity bias in future thinking. In the present article, we demonstrate across two experiments that negative future events are consistently simulated in more detail than positive future events when frequency of prior thinking is taken into account as a possible confounding variable and when level of detail associated with simulated events is assessed using an objective scoring criterion. Our findings are interpreted in the context of the mobilization-minimization hypothesis of event cognition that suggests people are especially likely to devote cognitive resources to processing negative scenarios. (PsycINFO Database Record |
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