Category: Mental Imagery

Diventare il tuo sé migliore come ragione per cambiare il comportamento

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By Winifred Gebhardt, Leiden University, The Netherlands Circa nove anni fa, in una notte sono diventata vegetariana. In un romanzo che stavo leggendo, il protagonista principale spiegava come lui non riuscisse a mangiare niente “in cui un tempo batteva un cuore”. Come un fulmine, queste poche parole affondarono in me. Mi sono resa conto che […]

Harnessing your imagination: Using the power of mental imagery to change health behaviour

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Martin S. Hagger, Curtin University, Australia and University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Dominic Conroy, Birkbeck University of London, UK What is mental imagery? People are usually quite good at imagining things. For example, people often act out future actions or scenarios in their mind, or daydream about fanciful possibilities. These imagined situations are often unstructured […]