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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

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