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Daydreams and the Function of Fantasy

This book seeks to re-define the role of fantasy in human life by overturning mainstream psychology's understanding of daydreams as being task-distracted mind wandering by proposing that all waking fantasies function to transform mood states into specific emotional reactions.

Main Author: Regis, M. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
Edition:1st ed. 2013.
Subjects:
Psychology.
Personality.
Social psychology.
Cognitive psychology.
Cultural studies.
Experiential research.
Emotions.
Popular Science in Psychology.
Personality and Social Psychology.
Cognitive Psychology.
Cultural Studies.
Psychology Research.
Emotion.
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137300775
Summary:This book seeks to re-define the role of fantasy in human life by overturning mainstream psychology's understanding of daydreams as being task-distracted mind wandering by proposing that all waking fantasies function to transform mood states into specific emotional reactions.
Physical Description:VII, 273 p. online resource.
ISBN:9781137300775

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