A Comparison of the Emotional Content of Dreams Recalled by Young and Elderly Women
The Journal of Psychology 1984 Kenneth A. Blick, Joan B. Howe 22 citations
Twenty-four college and 37 elderly women kept diaries for six weeks, at the end of which they voluntarily submitted them for analysis. The college women selected significantly more emotions for their dreams than did the elderly women. Enjoyment-joy accounted for a significantly higher proportion of emotions in dreams of elderly than in those of college women; but anger-rage and fear-terror...