Journal of Applied Social Psychology
February 1, 1990
Cynthia A. Loveland Cook, Robert D. Caplan, Howard M. Wolowitz
18 citations
A distinction between self‐reported dreams and nightmares made it possible to test the relative sensitivity of these nonwaking cognitions to different kinds of life stressors including combat expasure, childhood and adolescent stressom, and recent life events. Survey interview data were collected on 442 men from the cohort eligible for military duty during the Vietnam Conflict who varied in...
UTAS Research Repository
1990
Shirin Fernandez
Seligman and Yellen (1987) have formulated a dual imagery theory of dream production. They hypothesise that in dreams vivid imagery is independently physiologically generated and will be unconstrained by the plot of the dream, while vague imagery will be constrained as it is produced by a process of cognitive synthesis which integrates the visual bursts into a more or less coherent story. A...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
December 1, 1989
David Korotkov, Kathy Belicki
1 citation
Some have argued that a sense of humor helps one to maintain self-control over stressful experiences (2). Also, Hartmann (1) has suggested that nightmare disturbance may be related to a feeling of personal helplessness. It was hypothesized that those participants scoring higher on a measure of humor appreciation would show less nightmare disturbance. Also, the relation of humor to other dream...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
December 1, 1989
Ross Levin
The present study was designed to investigate empirically the relationship between self-reports of nightmare frequency and ego strength and death anxiety in both men and women. In addition, the interrelations among these variables were assessed. 20 undergraduates with high frequencies of nightmares and 20 with low frequencies (10 men and 10 women per group) were administered the Barron Ego...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
October 1, 1989
Raymond F. Martinetti
The Cognitive Processes Survey was presented and described in terms of standardization data and factor analysis. The instrument was used to assess sex differences in dream recall as a function of degree of imaginal life, orientation toward imaginal life, degree of suppression of feelings and number of dreams recalled weekly. Using a sample of 45 men and 45 women matched on age, family income,...
Political Psychology
September 1, 1989
Yoram Bilu
45 citations
More than 2000 written dream reports were collected from Jewish and Arab fifth to seventh graders living in various settings in Israel and the West Bank. From this general dream sample 212 encounter dreams (dealing with the other side on the manifest level) were extracted. The content analysis of the dreams supports Calvin Hall's continuity hypothesis: judging from the prevalence of encounter...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
September 1, 1989
Corrado Cavallero, Vincenzo Natale
5 citations
Thirty-six mentation reports (24 dream reports and 12 simulated dream reports) were provided by six subjects during experimental sessions. Dream reports were collected upon REM and Sleep Onset experimental awakenings. Artificial reports were obtained by asking the subject: “Try to invent a dream and tell me it as you go along.” To detect differences between the two types of reports, comparisons...
Imagination, Cognition and Personality
September 1, 1989
Donald W. Stewart, David Koulack
Retrospective dream reports from 179 undergraduate students were scored by two independent raters in an attempt to assess the reliability of a newly-developed rating system for lucid dream content. The weighted Kappa statistic, which provides an index of chance-corrected interrater agreement for qualitative data, was used to assess the reliability of the ratings. The results indicated that the...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
August 1, 1989
David Foulkes, Laura Bradley
9 citations
from REM awakenings are infrequent and, when present, qualitatively meager. We report here data from a cross-sectional project in which 10 boys and 10 girls were studied within a month of their birthdays at each of four ages, namely, 5, 6, 7, and 8 yr. Ten REM awakenings were scheduled for dream retrieval over three nonconsecutive nights, 10 mjn. following the initiation of REM periods...
Perceptual and Motor Skills
April 1, 1989
P Tholey
A description of several phenomenological experiments is given. These were done to investigate of which cognitive accomplishments dream characters are capable in lucid dreams. Nine male experienced lucid dreamers participated as subjects. They were directed to set different tasks to dream characters they met while lucid dreaming. Dream characters were asked to draw or write, to name unknown...