Journal of Abnormal Psychology
August 1, 2020
Philip R. Corlett, Aprajita Mohanty, A. MacDonald
The predictive processing framework (PPF) attempts to tackle deep philosophical problems, including how the brain generates consciousness, how our bodies influence cognition, and how cognition alters perception. As such, it provides a zeitgeist that incorporates concepts from physics, computer science, mathematics, artificial intelligence, economics, psychology and neuroscience, leveraging and,...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
August 6, 2015
Kathryn R. Hefner, Mark. J. Starr, John Curtin
Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States and its use is rising. Nonetheless, scientific efforts to clarify the risk for addiction and other harm associated with marijuana use have been lacking. Maladaptive decision-making is a cardinal feature of addiction that is likely to emerge in heavy users. In particular, distorted subjective reward valuation related to...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
February 2012
Dalena Van der Kloet, Timo Giesbrecht, Steven Jay Lynn et al.
We conducted a longitudinal study to investigate the relation between sleep experiences and dissociative symptoms in a mixed inpatient sample at a private clinic evaluated on arrival and at discharge 6 to 8 weeks later. Using hierarchical regression analyses and structural equation modeling, we found a link between sleep experiences and dissociative symptoms and determined that specifically...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
August 1, 2011
Nirit Soffer-Dudek, Golan Shahar
Building on the previously documented effects of stress and dissociation on sleep and dreaming, we examined their interactive role in general sleep-related experiences (GSEs; e.g., nightmares, falling dreams, hypnagogic hallucinations; see Watson, 2001). Stress, sleep quality, and GSEs were assessed daily for 14 days among young adults. Baseline assessment included life stress, sleep quality,...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
November 1, 2001
D Watson
The author examined the associations among sleep-related experiences (e.g., hypnagogic hallucinations, nightmares, waking dreams, and lucid dreams), dissociation, schizotypy, and the Big Five personality traits in 2 large student samples. Confirmatory factor analyses indicated that (a) dissociation and schizotypy are strongly correlated-yet distinguishable-constructs, and (b) the...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
2000
James Williams, John D. Teasdale, Zindel V. Segal et al.
436 citations
Previous research on depressed and suicidal patients and those with posttraumatic stress disorder has shown that patients' memory for the past is overgeneral (i.e., patients retrieve generic summaries of past events rather than specific events). This study investigated whether autobiographical memory could be affected by psychological treatment. Recovered depressed patients were randomly...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
May 1998
J C Scroppo, S L Drob, J L Weinberger et al.
This study compared 21 female adult psychiatric patients diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder (DID) with 21 female adult nondissociative psychiatric patients to determine whether DID patients exhibit a distinguishing set of clinical features, and perceptual, attentional, and cognitive processes. Participants were assessed with the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule to assess...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
1996
Helene Sophrin Porte, J. Allan Hobson
29 citations
As a normal psychological event, dreaming is an object of fascination and of conflicting explanation. In biopsychological terms, this article compares 3 explanations of 1 salient feature of dream cognition. Physical movement can be measured in dream reports, can be understood in physiologic terms, and can provide a focus for comparing dream theories. In addition, dreamed motion may have...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
May 1, 1994
T Kinnunen, H S Zamansky, M L Block
Do the verbal reports of deeply hypnotized Ss truthfully reflect their subjective experiences of hypnotic suggestions? Experiment 1 established that the electrodermal skin conductance response (SCR) provides an effective method for detecting deception in the laboratory equally well in hypnotized and nonhypnotized Ss. In Experiment 2, deeply hypnotized and simulating Ss were administered a...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
1994
Cornelia Maré, Steven Jay Lynn, Steven A. Kvaal et al.
11 citations
In Study 1, virtuoso (n = 13; passed more than 10 suggestions on the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A [HGSHS:A] and Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C), high hypnotizable (n = 14; passed more than 8 suggestions on the HGSHS:A), and medium hypnotizable (n = 17; passed 4-8 suggestions on the HGSHS:A) Ss were administered a hypnotic dream suggestion followed by a...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
November 1992
I Kirsch, C P Mobayed, J R Council et al.
Suggestibility was assessed in 60 college students after a traditional hypnotic induction, an alert induction, progressive relaxation training, or instruction in goal-directed imagery. Responsiveness to suggestion did not differ between groups. Subjects also generated open-ended reports of their states of awareness and of their experience of 3 hypnotic suggestions. A sample of these reports...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
1990
James M. Wood, Richard R. Bootzin
174 citations
Although several studies have examined the prevalence of nightmares and their relationship to anxiety, this is the first to have used daily dream logs, rather than retrospective self-reports, to monitor nightmare frequency. 220 undergraduates were administered self-report measures of anxiety and for 2 weeks recorded the number of their nightmares in logs. 47% of Ss reported at least one...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
February 1, 1981
Timothy J. Hoelscher, Eric Klinger, Steven G. Barta
90 citations
The hypothesis that cues related to subjects ' current concerns can control attentional and cognitive processes during sleeping and dreaming was examined by presenting concern- and nonconcern-related verbal stimuli to seven male subjects during sleep Stages 2 and REM. The taped dream reports were judged for stimulus incorporation by two independent raters. The results revealed that concern...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
1978
Derek A. Stern, Graham S. Saayman, Stephen Touyz
13 citations
This experiment tested the hypothesis that demand characteristics, as outlined by Orne (1962), may affect dream content. Twelve subjects, allocated to two matched groups balanced for age and sex, were selected on the basis of good dream recall from 94 volunteer psychology I students. Subjects were involved in the study for 15 consecutive nights, three of which were laboratory recording nights,...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
April 1, 1974
The present investigation confirms and extends previously reported evidence of a predictable association between presleep mood and dream recall. Infrequent (but not frequent) dream recallers were more likely to recall dreams when presleep self-confidence was lowest than when it was highest for an individual subject. This result directly contradicts the repression hypothesis of dream recall. In...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
February 1, 1974
D B Cohen
Results showed that dream recall at home was more likely to occur on mornings preceded by presleep mood ratings that were relatively negative and that this was particularly true for infrequent dream recallers. The results failed to support repression hypotheses of dream recall that derive from the "afterexpulsion " concept of Freud. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that presleep...
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
February 1, 1966
Helen Lewis, Donald R. Goodenough, A Shapiro et al.
Ss who typically fail to remember dreams at home (nonreporters) and Ss who frequently remember dreams (reporters) slept in the laboratory for 4 nights each. Gradual or abrupt awakenings were made at each EEG Stage-1 REM (dream) period. Although nonreporters and reporters did not differ in REM-period frequency or EEG patterns during sleep, nonreporters did report dreaming less frequently...