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Linda Lockwood

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Reasons for Not Reporting Peak Experiences

Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1991 John Davis, Linda Lockwood, Charles W. Wright 33 citations

Respondents reported on whether they had had a peak experience, how many people they had told, and the reasons they had not told more people. Out of 246 respondents, 79% reported having had a peak experience but most had told only a few people about it. The most common reasons respondents gave for not discussing a peak experience were that it was a special and intimate personal experience which...