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36 papers in the library · 423 citations · publishing 1963-2026
Psychological Reports June 1, 1998 L L Brubaker
Evolutionary psychology has historically paid little attention to dream theory and content, but recent interest in Freudian and Jungian ideas has prompted a broader examination of dreaming. Dream content analysis may offer useful data for testing evolutionary hypotheses about behavior.
Psychological Reports April 1, 1998 J J Tobacyk, D H Wells, M M Miller
People who report out-of-body experiences do not differ from those who do not in measures of perceived control, self-efficacy, or purpose in life. However, they hold stronger beliefs in psi phenomena, spiritualism, and extraordinary life forms.
Psychological Reports October 1, 1994 J J Janowiak, R Hackman
College students who practiced either mantra meditation or a yogic relaxation technique (Shavasana) both showed significant increases in self-actualization, with no difference between the two groups. Meditation training led to larger gains in systematic relaxed behavior than the relaxation training did. The study involved 62 college students and measured changes using the Personal Orientation Inventory and the Behavioral Relaxation Scale before and after the training.
Psychological Reports October 1, 1989 Ellen H. Yeagle, Gayle Privette, Frances Y. Dunham
Peak experiences—moments of highest happiness—are described similarly by artists and non-artists. Twenty-nine exhibiting artists and 123 university students in social sciences each wrote about a personal incident of peak happiness and rated descriptions on Likert-type scales. Multivariate analysis of variance and t tests found no significant differences between the groups' descriptions. Both groups' accounts aligned with major theoretical descriptions of peak experiences. Demographic differences and triggers varied between groups, but the similarity in experiential descriptions supports Maslow's claim that peak experiences are universal.
Psychological Reports April 1, 1987 Jerome J. Tobacyk, Thomas E. Mitchell
Narcissism has a small but significant direct link with belief in Psi and Precognition among college students. Among the 56 students who reported out-of-body experiences, narcissism showed moderate correlations with belief in Psi, Precognition, Witchcraft, and Superstition. For the 327 who did not report such experiences, only a small link between narcissism and Precognition appeared. These differing patterns suggest that personal experience with out-of-body phenomena may shape how narcissistic traits relate to paranormal beliefs, as interpreted through schemata theory.
Psychological Reports April 1, 1986 Gayle Privette, David Sherry
A questionnaire measuring peak performance, peak experience, and flow was developed from a comparative analysis of relevant literature. Its readability, assessed by the Dale-Chall formula, is at the upper 9th to 10th grade level. Reliability was estimated using data from 33 paired trials (21 women, 12 men, ages 20–49), yielding an overall reliability coefficient of .70 and individual item reliabilities.
Psychological Reports December 1, 1983 Daniel J. Kindlon
A random assignment of 35 undergraduate volunteers to either a meditation or a control condition found both treatments equally effective in reducing test anxiety. No consistent relationship emerged between outcome and gender, Scholastic Aptitude Test score, frequency of practice, repression, or expectancy of relief. Self-report, performance, and physiological measures were used, and the findings are discussed in light of different assessment procedures.
Psychological Reports February 1, 1983 Phillip T. Griffin, Richard E. Garey, George C. Daul et al.
Aggression, bizarre behavior, and anxiety were the most common symptoms among 153 people hospitalized with phencyclidine (PCP) toxicity, occurring in 58%, 55%, and 53% of patients, respectively. Males and females showed similar symptoms overall, but Black patients exhibited more bizarre behavior than White patients. This difference was driven by Black females, who had significantly higher rates of bizarre behavior, aggression, and looseness of association compared to White females. The findings suggest that White females with PCP toxicity may not fit the typical profile of a violently psychotic and paranoid patient. The authors note this preliminary work requires systematic replication.
Psychological Reports December 1, 1982 Elaine N. Aron, Arthur Aron
Married women who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program reported greater marital satisfaction than matched controls who did not meditate, as measured by Locke's Marital Adjustment Inventory. The effect was stronger among those who practiced regularly. The authors suggest the program may help prevent marital discord.
Psychological Reports April 1, 1977 Thomas K. Akers, Don M Tucker, Randy S. Roth et al.
Fifteen seminary students who regularly practiced a form of Christian meditation took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) and had their electroencephalographic (EEG) signals recorded. Alpha brainwave activity was measured during mental arithmetic tasks and during meditation. Higher scores on the Hypochondriasis scale of the MMPI were linked to an increase in alpha activity when moving from arithmetic to meditation. The finding is discussed in relation to past research, baseline alpha levels, and possible therapeutic uses of meditation.
Psychological Reports June 1, 1968 Ronald N. Bone, Faith Corlett
People who more frequently recall their dreams tend to score higher on a test of creative thinking, the Remote Associates Test (RAT). However, anxiety disrupts this relationship: anxious individuals recall dreams more often but perform worse on the creativity test. After statistically removing the influence of anxiety, the positive link between dream recall frequency and creativity becomes stronger.