APS
2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026
Imagining It Is Feeling It: Validating the Influence of a Goal Imagery Task Onto Self-Report and Physiological Measures of Emotional Activation
- Ariane S. Marion-Jetten
Universität Hamburg - Ludwig Piesch
Universität zu Lübeck - Martin Krentz
Universität Hamburg - Mirko Wegner
Universität Hamburg
Abstract
The influence of a goal imagery, mind-wandering, and control condition were tested on state imagery, emotional activation and valence using self-report, physiological and operant measures within 53 participants. Results provide support for an effect of goal imagery onto self-reported emotional valence and physiological activation, with conditional effects of eye states.
