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Emerging Evidence for the Structure and Function of Collaborative Imagination| title | Emerging Evidence for the Structure and Function of Collaborative Imagination |
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| start_date | 2024/05/22 |
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| schedule | 14h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Salle Duyckaerts – B32 & Virtual |
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| summary | Imagining the future with others is seemingly a ubiquitous part of our lives: from family and friends to people on a first date, we imagine and feel out possible future events together. Previous efforts to understand how and why people imagine the future have focused on individuals independently imagining events. Yet little consideration has been given to the effects of imagining a shared future together, in an interactive, dynamic social context. Across two pre-registered studies (N=244), we provide evidence that collaborative imagination exists and that it fosters social connection in novel dyads– beyond imagining a shared future individually or shared collaborative experience in general. Natural language processing results suggest that co-imagination synchronizes the content of imagined future events to create shared narrative representations that are stored across partners in novel dyads. I'm excited to share and get feedback on these new studies with friends and colleagues in the field because they may have the potential to change the way we view imagination by providing a novel framework and evidence that imagination itself is a socially creative process. While there is much more work to be done, these findings begin to shed light on the nature and structure of imagination with implications for better understanding interpersonal relationships, group identity, future thinking, and collective cognition. |
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| responsibles | Grégoire |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/05/16 13:33 UTC |
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