Abstract Imagined intergroup contact (Crisp & Turner, 2009) is a new indirect contact
strategy for promoting tolerance and more positive intergroup relations. Research has …

The present research extends previous functional accounts of counterfactual thinking by
incorporating the notion of reflective and evaluative processing. Participants generated …

In a 5-year longitudinal study of young community adults, the authors examined subjective
temporal perspective (STP)“trajectories” derived from ratings of past, present, and …

Could simply imagining positive interactions promote tolerance between different social
groups? This imagined contact hypothesis (Crisp & Turner, 2009) is just one example of a …

Drawing on temporal and social comparison perspectives, we examined sources of the
widespread belief that life gets better and better over time by determining how young adults …

If imagination is an airplane, then we humans are frequent fliers; emerging research in
neuroscience suggests that we devote a large portion of our mental lives to traveling into the …

This study employed a cross-sectional design to examine the psychological effects of
considering a move into supported housing. It sought to explore the wistful “prefactual …

In keeping with the theme of this book, we describe both theory and research on
counterfactual thinking while simultaneously considering relationships not only to the past …

Joan Didion's autobiographical play, The Year of Magical Thinking, is based on her memoir
of the same title and depicts the events from a period in her life that included both the …

Abstract Gruplararası Temas Kuramı, farklı gruplar arasındaki sosyal temasın dış-gruba
ilişkin tutumlar üzerinde olumlu değişimler yarattığını savunmaktadır. Dolayısıyla bu …