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2: Daydreaming and Mental Contrasting for Goal-Fulfillment

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Day Dreaming

i imagine that you influence some of marty's thinking on pespection. He has done a whole research programme on prerspection. But i think it's also important to distinguish here a little bit, between optimism and positive fantasies. There are different things. You can day dream up of ively fantasise about events in the future, despite the fact that you think they might not happen. So expectancies of judgment about how likely something will become real, and day dreams are just a sheer stream of thought,. where these events kind of pass by in front of your mind's eye.

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