The psychology of imagination : history, theory, and new research horizons

• Other Authors: Wagoner, Brady, 1980- (Editor), Brescó de Luna, Ignacio (Editor), Awad, Sarah H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2016]
• Series: Niels Bohr professorship lectures in cultural psychology.
• Subjects: Imagination.; Psychology > General.; Experimental psychology.; Psychology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806609185
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-68123-711-4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (350 pages)

This book offers a new approach to imagination which brings its emotional, social, cultural, contextual and existential characteristics to the fore. Fantasy and imagination are understood as the human capacity to distance oneself from the here-and-now situation in order to return to it with new poss...