Table 2.
Level of detail and episodic richness of simulations across future event scenarios.
Familiar | Unfamiliar | |||
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M | SD | M | SD | |
Internal details | 6.55 | 5.86 | 5.86 | 4.86 |
Event details | 2.23 | 3.10 | 2.09 | 2.60 |
Perceptual details | 1.55 | 1.85 | 0.82 | 1.05 |
Place details | 1.32 | 1.09 | 1.14 | 0.94 |
Emotion/thought details | 1.45 | 1.34 | 1.82 | 1.82 |
External details | 0.86 | 1.08 | 0.68 | 1.04 |
Means (M) and standard deviations (SD) are reported for the amount of details imagined for familiar and unfamiliar events with further divisions into subcategories of internal detail categories. Due to a low number of semantic details, repetitions and other metacognitive statements, we combined them into a single external detail score (see e.g., Addis et al., 2009). Time details were not reported (due to the concrete time reference of the event) and are therefore not listed in the table.