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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
Volume 142, Issue 2, Pages 323-327Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/a0028877
Keywords
episodic future thinking; plausibility; emotion; repetition
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH060941, 5R01MH60941-11] Funding Source: Medline
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People frequently imagine specific interpersonal experiences that might occur in their futures. The present study used a novel experimental paradigm to examine the influence of repeated simulation of future interpersonal experiences on subjective assessments of plausibility for positive, negative, and neutral events. The results demonstrate that repeated simulation increases estimates of plausibility for emotional, but not neutral, future interpersonal experiences. Additional correlational analyses reveal that increases in plausibility for emotional events are associated with concurrent increases in ease of simulation, event detail, and arousal. Implications for daily life and affective disorders such as depression and anxiety are noted.
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