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Dreaming Volume 12 Issue 3

Subject Areas: Psychology (miscellaneous)
Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press - American Psychological Association
ISSN: 1053-0797
SJR: 38

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Counterfactual Cognitive Operations in Dreams

McNamara, Patrick; Andresen, Jensine; Arrowood, Joshua; Messer, Glen

2002 Dreaming

doi:10.1023/A:1020181607842

We hypothesized that counterfactual (CF) thought occurs in dreams and that cognitive operations in dreams function to identify a norm violation or novel outcome (recorded in episodic memory) and then to integrate this new content into memory by generating counterfactuals to the violation. In...
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Arousability and Dreaming

Hicks, Robert A.; Fortin, Eileen; Brassington, Glenn S.

2002 Dreaming

doi:10.1023/A:1020114224680

This study finds that dream valence and the frequency with which several types of dreams were experienced are related to arousability. Specifically, compared to 214 university students who were classified as low in arousability, 182 university students who were high in arousability reported more...
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The Sanctification of Dreams: Prevalence and Implications

Phillips, Russell E.; Pargament, Kenneth I.

2002 Dreaming

doi:10.1023/A:1020166208750

Many scientists and practitioners have debated about the function of dreams. Though some researchers have described dreams as purposeless random neuronal firings, others have suggested that dreams serve an adaptive function with certain dream characteristics having positive implications. Drawing...
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Nightmares as a Coping Mechanism for Stress

Picchioni, Dante; Goeltzenleucher, Brandy; Green, Del N.; Convento, Mary J.; Crittenden, Rebecca; Hallgren, Michelle; Hicks, Robert A.

2002 Dreaming

doi:10.1023/A:1020118425588

The cause of nightmares remains unclear. However, previous research suggests that stress may playa key role and that nightmares may actually serve a beneficial function. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the overall relationship between these two variables and assess the hypothesis...

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