Warm sun on your face, a gentle salty breeze, the sound of ocean waves. Your friend earnestly suggests surfing lessons, and you both laugh as you imagine the two of you gracelessly tumbling through the water.
Yet social scientists have traditionally researched imagination as an individual psychological process.
Our research in the Imagination and Cognition Lab at University at Albany, SUNY has studied the various ways that imagination can shape people's social and emotional lives. While "imagination" can refer to many different ideas and processes, the form of imagination our work focuses on involves the ability to mentally create and represent novel, hypothetical, personal experiences that are specific in time and place.
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