Medical Xpress December 10, 2025
A new study led by cognitive neuroscientists at the University of Colorado Boulder and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences shows that merely imagining a positive encounter with someone can make you like them better by engaging brain regions involved with learning and preference. The findings could have implications for psychotherapy, sports performance and more.
Merely imagining a positive encounter with someone can not only make you like them better but can also change how information about that person is stored in your brain, according to new research published Dec. 10 in the journal Nature Communications.
The paper provides some of the strongest evidence yet that vivid imagining can have tangible neural and behavioral impacts. The...
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