Mental imagery is increasingly being used to tackle anhedonia in depression, because imagining reward can boost anticipatory pleasure & motivation. But does mental imagery use influence the self-reporting of anhedonia symptoms?🤔 Yes. A🧵on our new open access 🗞️: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Anhedonia, or a deficit in the liking, wanting, and seeking of rewards, is typically assessed via self-reported “in-the-moment” emotional and motivational responses to reward stimuli and activities...
A while back @blackwellse.bsky.social & I wanted to know: a) whether people spontaneously imagine reward activity engagement when completing self-report reward response measures of anhedonia (e.g. DARS; Rizvi et al., 2015); & b) is higher imagery use associated with higher reward response scores?