Role of fantasy in emotional clarity and emotional regulation in empathy: A preliminary study.

ABSTRACT: Fantasy is the experience of identifying with characters in movies, novels, plays, and other fictional situations. In social contexts, individuals take on the perspective of others by sensing their emotions through empathy. During this process, perspective-taking and emotional sharing affect one's metacognition, which deals with the distinction between and the understanding of one's emotions (clarity) and their regulation (repair); previous studies have primarily focused on these processes. However, perspective-taking-considering another individual's viewpoint-requires one to imagine their outlook; it also induces emotional responses. This study examined the role of fantasy in clarity and repair in metacognition, for which data derived from 475 Japanese participants were analyzed. The resu

SUBMITTER: Shiota S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9714674 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature