Mental simulation and meaning in life.
Mental simulation and meaning in life.
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生活中的心理模拟和意义。
DOI：
10.1037/a0038322
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发表时间：
2015-02
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Tamir DI
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文献类型：
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作者：
Waytz A;Hershfield HE;Tamir DI
心理模拟，自我投射到交替的时间，空间，社会或假设现实的过程是一种独特的人类能力。许多研究也表明，心理模拟的倾向与增强意义有关。本研究测试这种关联，特别是研究两种形式的模拟（时间和空间）和生活中的意义之间的关系。研究1使用神经成像来证明内侧颞叶网络（大脑默认网络的一个子网络，涉及前瞻和回顾）中增强的连通性与自我报告的生活意义相关。研究2表明，实验诱导人们思考过去或未来与现在相比，通过产生更有意义的事件，增强了自我报告的生活意义。研究3表明，通过实验诱导人们对过去或未来进行具体而非一般的思考，可以增强自我报告的生活意义。研究4转向空间模拟，以证明实验诱导人们具体思考一个替代的空间位置（从现在开始）增加了来自这个模拟的意义，而不是一般地思考另一个位置或具体地思考一个人的当前位置。研究5表明，实验诱导人们思考一个替代的空间位置与一个人的当前位置增强了生活的意义，通过从这个模拟的意义。研究6表明，简单地要求人们想象在另一个地方完成一项生活意义的测量，而不是要求他们在目前的位置这样做，可以增强对意义的报告。这项研究揭示了生命意义的一个重要决定因素，并表明无定向心理模拟有利于心理健康。
Mental simulation, the process of self-projection into alternate temporal, spatial, social, or hypothetical realities is a distinctively human capacity. Numerous lines of research also suggest that the tendency for mental simulation is associated with enhanced meaning. The present research tests this association specifically examining the relationship between two forms of simulation (temporal and spatial) and meaning in life. Study 1 uses neuroimaging to demonstrate that enhanced connectivity in the medial temporal lobe network, a subnetwork of the brain’s default network implicated in prospection and retrospection, correlates with self-reported meaning in life. Study 2 demonstrates that experimentally inducing people to think about the past or future versus the present enhances self-reported meaning in life, through the generation of more meaningful events. Study 3 demonstrates that experimentally inducing people to think specifically versus generally about the past or future enhances self-reported meaning in life. Study 4 turns to spatial simulation to demonstrate that experimentally inducing people to think specifically about an alternate spatial location (from the present) increases meaning derived from this simulation compared to thinking generally about another location or specifically about one’s present location. Study 5 demonstrates that experimentally inducing people to think about an alternate spatial location versus one’s present location enhances meaning in life, through meaning derived from this simulation. Study 6 demonstrates that simply asking people to imagine completing a measure of meaning in life in an alternate location compared to asking them to do so in their present location enhances reports of meaning. This research sheds light on an important determinant of meaning in life and suggests that undirected mental simulation benefits psychological well-being.
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DOI：
10.1177/1073858411403316
发表时间：
2012-06
期刊：
The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry
影响因子：
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作者：
Andrews-Hanna JR
通讯作者：
Andrews-Hanna JR
影响因子：
2.5
作者：
Andrews-Hanna, Jessica R.;Reidler, Jay S.;Buckner, Randy L.
通讯作者：
Buckner, Randy L.
影响因子：
3.7
作者：
Bloom, Paul
通讯作者：
Bloom, Paul
影响因子：
2.6
作者：
Addis, Donna Rose;Wong, Alana T.;Schacter, Daniel L.
通讯作者：
Schacter, Daniel L.
影响因子：
4.3
作者：
Baumeister, Roy F.;Vohs, Kathleen D.;Garbinsky, Emily N.
通讯作者：
Garbinsky, Emily N.