Fridays post from BPS Research Digest looks at role of imagination in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Considering that obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is characterised by a fear that “bad things” will happen if certain rituals are not performed, it’s surprising that so little is known about the role of imagination in the condition.
All the more so given classic work by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky that showed the easier we find it to imagine a given outcome, the more probable we think that outcome will be – a phenomenon they dubbed the simulation heuristic. Read more
Source: BPS Research Digest
