Moral imagination: Facilitating prosocial decision-making through scene imagery and theory of mind
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.11.004
Abstract: How we imagine and subjectively experience the future can inform how we make decisions in the present. Here, we examined a prosocial effect of imagining future episodes in motivating moral decisions about helping others in… read more here.
Keywords: facilitating prosocial; scene imagery; prosocial decision; episodic simulation ... See more keywords
Activating episodic simulation increases affective empathy
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104558
Abstract: Affective empathy, feeling what others feel, is a powerful emotion that binds us to one another. Here we ask whether how we mentally represent the scene in which another suffers informs our emotions. For example,… read more here.
Keywords: activating episodic; episodic simulation; affective empathy; group ... See more keywords
Imagining the future: The core episodic simulation network dissociates as a function of timecourse and the amount of simulated information
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2017.02.005
Abstract: Neuroimaging data indicate that episodic memory (i.e., remembering specific past experiences) and episodic simulation (i.e., imagining specific future experiences) are associated with enhanced activity in a common set of neural regions, often referred to as… read more here.
Keywords: network; core network; episodic simulation; episodic memory ... See more keywords
Episodic simulation reduces intergroup bias in prosocial intentions and behavior.
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DOI: 10.1037/pspi0000194
Abstract: People frequently feel less empathy for and offer less aid to out-groups in need relative to their in-groups. Most attempts aimed at reducing intergroup bias in helping emphasize group-focused cognitions and emotions. However, little is… read more here.
Keywords: group; episodic simulation; prosocial intentions; intergroup bias ... See more keywords
A role for affect in the link between episodic simulation and prosociality
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DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2016.1254246
Abstract: ABSTRACT Prospection and prosociality are hallmarks of our species. Little is known, however, about how our ability to imagine or simulate specific future events contributes to our capacity for prosociality. Here, we investigated this relationship,… read more here.
Keywords: affect link; episodic simulation; role affect; prosociality ... See more keywords