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What we think about when we think about predictive processing

Journal of Abnormal Psychology August 1, 2020 P. 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,...

DOI: 10.1037/abn0000632 Full text

Altered subjective reward valuation among drug-deprived heavy marijuana users: Aversion to uncertainty

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...

DOI: 10.1037/abn0000106 Full text

Daily stress interacts with trait dissociation to predict sleep-related experiences in young adults.

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,...

DOI: 10.1037/a0022941 Full text

Dissociations of the night: individual differences in sleep-related experiences and their relation to dissociation and schizotypy.

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...

DOI: 10.1037//0021-843x.110.4.526 Full text

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy reduces overgeneral autobiographical memory in formerly depressed patients.

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...

DOI: 10.1037//0021-843x.109.1.150 Mindfulness Autobiographical memory Cognition Clinical psychology +2

Physical motion in dreams: One measure of three theories.

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...

DOI: 10.1037//0021-843x.105.3.329

Hypnosis and the dream hidden observer: Primary process and demand characteristics.

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...

DOI: 10.1037//0021-843x.103.2.316

Incorporation of concern- and nonconcern-related verbal stimuli into dream content.

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...

DOI: 10.1037/0021-843x.90.1.88

A methodological study of the effect of experimentally induced demand characteristics in research on nocturnal dreams.

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,...

DOI: 10.1037//0021-843x.87.4.459

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