Pub Date : 2022-04-20DOI: 10.1177/02762366221094245
M. Schredl, Judith Zumstein, Sven Baumann, M. Schmidt
Previous research identified personality and neurophysiological traits that are associated with inter-individual differences in lucid dreaming frequency. The present study investigated the question as to whether sensory processing sensitivity is related to lucid dreaming. Overall, 1,807 persons (1,008 woman, 799 men) with a mean age of 47.75 ± 14.41 years completed the German High Sensitive Person Scale, a Big Five personality inventory, and the lucid dream frequency scale. As expected, Aesthetic Sensitivity and Low Sensory Threshold (two of the three sensory processing factors) were positively related to lucid dream frequency. Moreover, extraversion and low agreeableness were also related to lucid dreaming frequency. Although the effect sizes of these relationships are relatively small, this research can shed light on the mechanism underlying the inter-individual differences in lucid dream frequency.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.1177/02762366221093921
Mu Hu, Bingqing Zhang, Y. Shen, Jing Guo, Shuwen Wang
The present study examined the roles of people's romantic beliefs and imagined interactions in unrequited love. Two hundred and twenty five Chinese college students participated in a survey study. More idealized romantic beliefs were associated with stronger unrequited love. Men's unrequited love was stronger than women's. Would-be lovers who had imagined interactions with beloved ones had stronger unrequited love in contrast to those who didn’t. Unrequited love and romantic beliefs were both positively related to the imagined interaction attributes of frequency and valence and the functions of compensation and relationship maintenance. Frequency of imagined interactions positively mediated the relationship between romantic beliefs and unrequited love.
{"title":"The Roles of Romantic Beliefs and Imagined Interaction in Unrequited Love","authors":"Mu Hu, Bingqing Zhang, Y. Shen, Jing Guo, Shuwen Wang","doi":"10.1177/02762366221093921","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762366221093921","url":null,"abstract":"The present study examined the roles of people's romantic beliefs and imagined interactions in unrequited love. Two hundred and twenty five Chinese college students participated in a survey study. More idealized romantic beliefs were associated with stronger unrequited love. Men's unrequited love was stronger than women's. Would-be lovers who had imagined interactions with beloved ones had stronger unrequited love in contrast to those who didn’t. Unrequited love and romantic beliefs were both positively related to the imagined interaction attributes of frequency and valence and the functions of compensation and relationship maintenance. Frequency of imagined interactions positively mediated the relationship between romantic beliefs and unrequited love.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"42 1","pages":"145 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45316462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-18DOI: 10.1177/02762366221093926
C. Paquet, C. Cogan, Joanne L. Davis
Given language's significant relationship to underlying psychological functioning, studying changes in language use regarding post-trauma nightmare (PTNM) content throughout a rescription-based treatment can offer insight into the nature of change in language associated with such treatments. LIWC2015 is an efficient tool that analyzes bodies of text for words that are theoretically representative of verbal and written expressions of underlying emotional and cognitive processes. LIWC2015 has not been extensively studied with PTNMs. The current study analyzed changes in language across cognitive and emotional domains using LIWC in a trauma-exposed treatment-seeking sample. Our analyses revealed significant changes in the frequency of words related to emotions and cognitive processing from the nightmare to rescription. In general, the rescripted imagery, relative to the nightmare, contained significantly fewer words pertaining to cognitive processing and negative emotions. This is the first known study to examine the change in language use, via word count, between nightmares and their rescripted versions. As language use is strongly associated with psychological health, these findings have clinical implications for providers and clients alike.
{"title":"Does Nightmare Rescription Lead to Meaningful Changes in Language Use? An Investigation within a Treatment Seeking Sample with Chronic Post-Trauma Nightmares","authors":"C. Paquet, C. Cogan, Joanne L. Davis","doi":"10.1177/02762366221093926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762366221093926","url":null,"abstract":"Given language's significant relationship to underlying psychological functioning, studying changes in language use regarding post-trauma nightmare (PTNM) content throughout a rescription-based treatment can offer insight into the nature of change in language associated with such treatments. LIWC2015 is an efficient tool that analyzes bodies of text for words that are theoretically representative of verbal and written expressions of underlying emotional and cognitive processes. LIWC2015 has not been extensively studied with PTNMs. The current study analyzed changes in language across cognitive and emotional domains using LIWC in a trauma-exposed treatment-seeking sample. Our analyses revealed significant changes in the frequency of words related to emotions and cognitive processing from the nightmare to rescription. In general, the rescripted imagery, relative to the nightmare, contained significantly fewer words pertaining to cognitive processing and negative emotions. This is the first known study to examine the change in language use, via word count, between nightmares and their rescripted versions. As language use is strongly associated with psychological health, these findings have clinical implications for providers and clients alike.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"42 1","pages":"87 - 105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41635089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-29DOI: 10.1177/02762366221089279
Kathryn D. Coduto, Megan A. Vendemia, Steele Viverette, Emma Williams
Imagined interactions (IIs) involve interpersonal contact with another individual within one's mind. Although primary attributes and features of IIs are well-established in the literature, the present study sought to identify which features and functions related to sexual and romantic encounters, particularly with ostensible strangers. As part of a larger study investigating online dating during the COVID-19 pandemic, we asked 315 online daters to describe their IIs with someone they recently matched with on an online dating platform. Through a qualitative coding process, six key themes emerged from their responses: (1) imagined interactions as sexual pleasure and sexual release; (2) imagining plans that lead to sexual interaction; (3) planning for future cybersex; (4) imagining first-date scenarios; (5) compensating for in-person platonic interaction; and (6) the inability to have IIs. Implications for online partners who have not met offline and contributions to the literature on IIs are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-07DOI: 10.1177/02762366221083234
Michelle Ulor, F. Bailes, D. O'Connor
Imagining music in the mind's ear is common in everyday life and is characterised by individual differences in who is likely to experience involuntary musical imagery. Research has explored the relationship between musical imagery and mental health (e.g., obsessive compulsive disorder); however, little is known about the relationship between anxiety and musical imagery. The current study investigated the associations between these two variables. 432 participants completed a cross-sectional, online survey, measuring trait anxiety, depression, musical imagery experience, the controllability of unwanted thoughts, and aspects of sleep. Positive associations were found between trait anxiety and the frequency, negative valence and perceived helpfulness of involuntary musical imagery, and the amount of music imagined whilst trying to sleep. Trait anxiety did not correlate with the controllability of auditory imagery. These findings provide a clearer understanding of musical imagery's relationship with anxiety and have implications for using voluntary musical imagery to reduce anxiety.
{"title":"An Investigation into the Relationship Between Musical Imagery and Anxiety","authors":"Michelle Ulor, F. Bailes, D. O'Connor","doi":"10.1177/02762366221083234","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762366221083234","url":null,"abstract":"Imagining music in the mind's ear is common in everyday life and is characterised by individual differences in who is likely to experience involuntary musical imagery. Research has explored the relationship between musical imagery and mental health (e.g., obsessive compulsive disorder); however, little is known about the relationship between anxiety and musical imagery. The current study investigated the associations between these two variables. 432 participants completed a cross-sectional, online survey, measuring trait anxiety, depression, musical imagery experience, the controllability of unwanted thoughts, and aspects of sleep. Positive associations were found between trait anxiety and the frequency, negative valence and perceived helpfulness of involuntary musical imagery, and the amount of music imagined whilst trying to sleep. Trait anxiety did not correlate with the controllability of auditory imagery. These findings provide a clearer understanding of musical imagery's relationship with anxiety and have implications for using voluntary musical imagery to reduce anxiety.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"42 1","pages":"5 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44678423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-01DOI: 10.1177/02762366211034402
Masanori Yamaguchi, Yusuke Moriguchi
Although previous studies revealed the characteristics of children with imaginary companions, the characteristics of children alone could not explain why some children create and interact with imaginary companions. The current cross-sectional study examined the impact of the situational factors, decreased opportunities to meet and play with real playmate due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on the prevalence of imaginary companions. Five hundred sixty caregivers of children aged 2-9 years (half of them were girls) were asked whether their children currently had imaginary companions (personified objects and invisible friends) before (September 2019) and during the pandemic (April 2020). The logistic regression model showed that only the prevalence of personified objects increased during the pandemic, OR = 2.01, 95%CI [1.34, 3.00], even when potential variables were controlled. The results suggest that children more frequently played with their personified objects during the pandemic compared to before the pandemic.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-24DOI: 10.1177/02762366221082508
Johan Mathe, W. Kelly
The current study examines some Boundary Questionnaire 18 (BQ18) psychometric properties, a shorter version of the Boundary Questionnaire (BQ). The current study examines the BQ18 through factor analysis to understand more about the structure of the inventory. At this point, the BQ18 has not been examined in depth. Further, the authors suggest a shorter version of the BQ18 termed "BQ13" with stronger reliability. The current study also examines the utilization of the "BQ13" as a unidimensional scale. The authors discuss the positive outcomes of having a new scale to measure mental boundaries that are more up-to-date and can be utilized not only in research settings but clinical settings as well.
{"title":"An Exploratory Factor Analysis on the Boundary Questionnaire 18: Insights for Future Research","authors":"Johan Mathe, W. Kelly","doi":"10.1177/02762366221082508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762366221082508","url":null,"abstract":"The current study examines some Boundary Questionnaire 18 (BQ18) psychometric properties, a shorter version of the Boundary Questionnaire (BQ). The current study examines the BQ18 through factor analysis to understand more about the structure of the inventory. At this point, the BQ18 has not been examined in depth. Further, the authors suggest a shorter version of the BQ18 termed \"BQ13\" with stronger reliability. The current study also examines the utilization of the \"BQ13\" as a unidimensional scale. The authors discuss the positive outcomes of having a new scale to measure mental boundaries that are more up-to-date and can be utilized not only in research settings but clinical settings as well.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"42 1","pages":"77 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46076750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-02-11DOI: 10.1177/02762366221077416
Leah E. LeFebvre, Ryan D. Rasner, Carli-Jo Kickert, Bert McLelland, E. Owen, Aishwarya Iyer
This study explores the friendzone, or the lexicon surrounding the nexus between platonic and romantic relationships. The friendzone situates layperson and scholarly depictions of platonic and romantic relationships. Minimal scholarship explores this common vernacular from either perspective—those that communicate romantic attraction or those that react. Specifically, this study investigates how initiators (those who communicate interest) and respondents (those who react to declarations) participate in the communicative and relational process of friendzoning. Participants (N = 787) completed open-ended questions about their friendzone experiences, communication from initiators, reaction of respondents, and changes to friendships. This study utilizes analytic induction to provide further conceptualization and delineation of the friendzone through identifying friendzoning types, initiator communication strategies, respondent reactions, and relationship changes. Findings allowed for: the conceptualizing of the friendzone, highlighting obstacles for navigating non-normative relationship scripts, and identifying risks involved with relationship change.
{"title":"Conceptualizing the Friendzone Phenomenon","authors":"Leah E. LeFebvre, Ryan D. Rasner, Carli-Jo Kickert, Bert McLelland, E. Owen, Aishwarya Iyer","doi":"10.1177/02762366221077416","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762366221077416","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the friendzone, or the lexicon surrounding the nexus between platonic and romantic relationships. The friendzone situates layperson and scholarly depictions of platonic and romantic relationships. Minimal scholarship explores this common vernacular from either perspective—those that communicate romantic attraction or those that react. Specifically, this study investigates how initiators (those who communicate interest) and respondents (those who react to declarations) participate in the communicative and relational process of friendzoning. Participants (N = 787) completed open-ended questions about their friendzone experiences, communication from initiators, reaction of respondents, and changes to friendships. This study utilizes analytic induction to provide further conceptualization and delineation of the friendzone through identifying friendzoning types, initiator communication strategies, respondent reactions, and relationship changes. Findings allowed for: the conceptualizing of the friendzone, highlighting obstacles for navigating non-normative relationship scripts, and identifying risks involved with relationship change.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"42 1","pages":"42 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43260671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-31DOI: 10.1177/02762366221077631
M. Schredl, A. Göritz
Although dreams are very private, dreaming has also social components, i.e., dreams are shared quite often. We studied the frequency of how often the dreamer deliberately contacted another person because s/he dreamed about this person, as this might intensify the waking-life bonds with this person. Overall, 2929 participants completed the dream survey, and a subsample also completed a Big Five Personality inventory. The findings indicate that 37% of the participants contacted other persons because they dreamed about them. Dream recall frequency, attitude towards dreaming, younger age, and female gender was associated with contacting the person(s) dreamed of. Moreover, extraversion was also related to the frequency of contacting the person(s) dreamed of – similar to the relationship found for dream sharing frequency and extraversion. However, the association with low conscientiousness is a new finding. It would be very interesting to test whether this social behavior (contacting another person) motivated by dreams strengthens the social bonds between the dreamer and the contacted person(s) and thereby provide support for the Social Simulation Theory.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-18DOI: 10.1177/02762366221074904
James M. Honeycutt, K. Markman, A. D’Angiulli
The third issue of Volume 41 contains five studies. Moral judgement, paranormal beliefs, imagery and psychosis, and online dating are examined. Additionally, when this preface is written, we are entering the second year of the COVID19 pandemic. One of the studies examines the effects of the pandemic are children personification of objects. We briefly preview each of these enticing studies. The first study by Brian Ruedinger and Jennifer Barnes examines moral action and judgement. This is a series of three experiments. There is a lot of research indicating that a person’s real-world morality affects the way they approach fictional media, and that fictional media can affect real world morality in a self-fulfilling prophecy loop. They examine the degree to which morality was imported into realistic and fantastical fictional stories. In the first pair of studies, participants had to choose whether or not to behave in an immoral fashion for personal (in-story) gain. In the third study, participants read a non-interactive version of the story in which a story character repeatedly behaved immorally for personal gain and were asked to rate the morality of those actions. It is intriguing that across studies, those who were more transported into the narrative were more likely to import real-world morality, choosing less immoral actions (interactive story, Studies 1 and 2) and judging a character’s Machiavellian actions as more immoral (Study 3). The next pair of studies study examine psychosis and in cognition and mental imagery respectively. The second study is by Chris Williams, Andrew Denovan, Kenneth Drinkwater, and Neil Dagnall. They investigated how much cognitive bias mediated the relationship between thinking style and belief in the paranormal. A wide array of intriguing results is reported. An example of one of their findings is that catastrophising was associated belief in the paranormal and other cognitive biases. Their conclusion that even though belief in the paranormal is typically benign, it can have effects on weakening political involvement and public health messages. This conclusion is particularly relevant in the current political climate and uncertainty dealing with the COVID19 pandemic, where there are numerous conspiracy theories about the cause of the virus and the effectiveness of masking and vaccine spreading and halting variant spread. The third study conducted by Laura Auvinen-Lintunen, Tuula Ilonen, Tuula Kieseppä, Jaana Suvisaari, and Maija Lindgrenon examines additional associations between psychosis, and mental imagery. They studied the vividness and controllability Editorial
{"title":"Editor's Statement","authors":"James M. Honeycutt, K. Markman, A. D’Angiulli","doi":"10.1177/02762366221074904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762366221074904","url":null,"abstract":"The third issue of Volume 41 contains five studies. Moral judgement, paranormal beliefs, imagery and psychosis, and online dating are examined. Additionally, when this preface is written, we are entering the second year of the COVID19 pandemic. One of the studies examines the effects of the pandemic are children personification of objects. We briefly preview each of these enticing studies. The first study by Brian Ruedinger and Jennifer Barnes examines moral action and judgement. This is a series of three experiments. There is a lot of research indicating that a person’s real-world morality affects the way they approach fictional media, and that fictional media can affect real world morality in a self-fulfilling prophecy loop. They examine the degree to which morality was imported into realistic and fantastical fictional stories. In the first pair of studies, participants had to choose whether or not to behave in an immoral fashion for personal (in-story) gain. In the third study, participants read a non-interactive version of the story in which a story character repeatedly behaved immorally for personal gain and were asked to rate the morality of those actions. It is intriguing that across studies, those who were more transported into the narrative were more likely to import real-world morality, choosing less immoral actions (interactive story, Studies 1 and 2) and judging a character’s Machiavellian actions as more immoral (Study 3). The next pair of studies study examine psychosis and in cognition and mental imagery respectively. The second study is by Chris Williams, Andrew Denovan, Kenneth Drinkwater, and Neil Dagnall. They investigated how much cognitive bias mediated the relationship between thinking style and belief in the paranormal. A wide array of intriguing results is reported. An example of one of their findings is that catastrophising was associated belief in the paranormal and other cognitive biases. Their conclusion that even though belief in the paranormal is typically benign, it can have effects on weakening political involvement and public health messages. This conclusion is particularly relevant in the current political climate and uncertainty dealing with the COVID19 pandemic, where there are numerous conspiracy theories about the cause of the virus and the effectiveness of masking and vaccine spreading and halting variant spread. The third study conducted by Laura Auvinen-Lintunen, Tuula Ilonen, Tuula Kieseppä, Jaana Suvisaari, and Maija Lindgrenon examines additional associations between psychosis, and mental imagery. They studied the vividness and controllability Editorial","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"41 1","pages":"243 - 244"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43087130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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