{"title":"Editor’s Statement","authors":"James M. Honeycutt, K. Markman, A. D’Angiulli","doi":"10.1177/0276236620946262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236620946262","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"40 1","pages":"91 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0276236620946262","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49422700","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}
{"title":"Editors’ Statement","authors":"James M. Honeycutt, K. Markman, A. D’Angiulli","doi":"10.1177/0276236620946200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236620946200","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"40 1","pages":"3 - 4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0276236620946200","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44928619","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}
{"title":"Demographic, Personality Trait and Personality Disorder Correlates of Aesthetic Motivation","authors":"A. Furnham","doi":"10.1177/0276236620942917","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236620942917","url":null,"abstract":"This study looked at personality and sub-clinical personality disorder correlates of self-rated motives for aesthetic motivation (AM). Two groups, totalling over 4000 adult British managers, completed three tests including a personality trait measure (HPI); a personality disorders measure (HDS), and a measure of their Motives and Values (MVPI) for Aestheticism and Culture. The two different groups had similar results, showing that for personality traits Inquisitiveness (Openness-to-Experience) and Sociability (Extraversion) were positively, and Adjustment (low Neuroticism) and Prudence (Conscientiousness) were negatively, related to AM. For personality disorder traits Imaginativeness (Schizotypy) and Colourful (Histrionic) were positively correlated with AM. Factor analysis confirmed the higher order classification of both traits and disorders. Regressions at the higher factor level suggested personality traits were more related to AM than disorder traits. Implications for the selection and management of aesthetic people are considered. Limitations and future directions are also noted.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"40 1","pages":"333 - 350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0276236620942917","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49437683","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}
{"title":"Understanding Fantasy and Adult Doll Play Through Regression in Service of the Self","authors":"Angelie Ignacio, G. Cupchik","doi":"10.1177/0276236620942465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236620942465","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored doll play activities involving adult doll collectors, and students who participated in an experimental story creation task which incorporated dolls/toy images and urban/landscape settings. It was expected that a secure versus insecure sense of self would perform a mediating role. The study involved two data collections: Online and Laboratory. Both phases used a 10 item questionnaire regarding participant’s sense of self. The online phase measured attitudes about fantasy and play, along with creative aspects of the doll hobby by adult collectors. The laboratory phase sought to determine whether doll play activity involving undergraduate students could be simulated in a laboratory setting. We found that in both samples, a positive correlation was found between insecure sense of self and fantasy proneness. This indicates that adult collectors and to an extent undergraduates may utilize fantasy (e.g., world building) and doll play as an act of defensive regression to resolve internal conflicts. Subsequently, a negative correlation between planning the doll aesthetic and fantasy proneness was found in the adult collectors’ sample, which may indicate regression in service of the self.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"40 1","pages":"290 - 324"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0276236620942465","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42209695","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}
{"title":"“God Spoke to Me”: Subjective Paranormal Experience and the Homeostatic Response to Early Trauma","authors":"D. Marks","doi":"10.1177/0276236620934003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236620934003","url":null,"abstract":"The prevalence of reported subjective paranormal experience (SPE) is at high levels in all populations investigated to date. This article presents a new integrative theory of SPE in light of the brain’s homeostatic response to early trauma. I hold that developmental factors in the brain’s responses to trauma predispose victimized individuals towards SPE and paranormal beliefs. I examine the reported associations between childhood abuse, dissociation, depersonalization, compartmentalization, fantasy generation, homeostasis and SPE. A new integrative theory of psychological homeostasis draws upon the mechanisms of dissociation and fantasy generation to explain the origins of SPE. Twelve hypotheses from the Homeostasis Theory are found to be consistent with the findings of multiple studies and falsifying evidence has yet to be identified. Freezing and associated releases of fantasy, which may take the form of SPE, serve as a survival strategy in the homeostatic regaining of safety and control following childhood abuse. Prospective research is necessary to deepen our understanding of the brain mechanisms required by the system described here.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"40 1","pages":"223 - 272"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0276236620934003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41463097","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}
{"title":"Külpe’s Imageless But Visionary Idea: That Vivid Visual Images Are “Centrally Excited Sensations” Which Are Constructed From “Imageless Thoughts”","authors":"Robert G. Kunzendorf","doi":"10.1177/0276236620941015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236620941015","url":null,"abstract":"In the current article, Section 1 begins with the reconsideration of Külpe’s late-nineteenth-century thesis that all problem solving is based on “imageless thoughts,” from which conscious images are constructed by vivid imagers but not by non-imagers. Section 2 proceeds by reconsidering Bühler’s refined thesis that conscious images are constructed from imageless rules, and by considering the present author’s auxiliary thesis that constructed images serve to test newly developed rules for parsing percepts and generating images. Section 3 concludes by reconsidering Külpe’s psychophysiological thesis that vivid visual images are “centrally excited sensations” which are centrifugally constructed on the retina, in accordance with generative rules in the cortex. Twentieth and twenty-first century evidence in support of these theses is summarized throughout the article, in the hope that Külpe’s visionary thoughts lead to further research and testing.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"40 1","pages":"273 - 289"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0276236620941015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46953240","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}
{"title":"“Imagine All the People”: Imagined Interactions in Virtual Reality When Public Speaking","authors":"Leah E. LeFebvre, Luke LeFebvre, M. Allen","doi":"10.1177/0276236620938310","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236620938310","url":null,"abstract":"This study explores the relationship between public speaking anxiety (PSA) and Imaginary Interactions (IIs). Participants (N = 17) were recruited from the multi-section departmental introductory public speaking course. Virtual reality (VR) as a potential form of II treatment for PSA blurs the reality between imagined and actual interactions. This study utilized a sequential explanatory approach to examine inferential and descriptive findings. The inferential investigation employed a four-stage design requiring participants to complete pre-test PSA and post-test assessments before and after VR simulations, exploring II functions and attributions. The follow-up descriptive analysis expanded and generated new understanding for the complexities of II through participants’ experiences using directed content analysis. Utilizing VR as an extension of IIs highlighted the rehearsal function, and variations in attributions for discrepancy and specificity between VR realism and artificial simulated perceptions. The implications suggest that VR provides students in public speaking environments a treatment mechanism that minimizes the cognitive strain to imagine the scene and setting of the situation, while simultaneously providing assistance in PSA reduction.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"40 1","pages":"189 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0276236620938310","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46445714","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}
{"title":"In Memory of Jerome L. Singer","authors":"Robert G. Kunzendorf","doi":"10.1177/0276236620938015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236620938015","url":null,"abstract":"Jerome L. Singer was founding editor of Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, and was co-editor for 29 years. The author of this tribute in his memory was his co-editor for the last 9 of those 29 years.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"40 1","pages":"5 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0276236620938015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47506029","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}
{"title":"Nightmare Distress, Beliefs about Nightmares, and Personality","authors":"M. Schredl","doi":"10.1177/0276236620934371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236620934371","url":null,"abstract":"A variety of factors contribute to nightmare distress; in addition to nightmare frequency also beliefs about nightmares can be associated with heightened nightmare distress. The study investigated the personality correlates of beliefs about nightmares and whether these beliefs mediate the relationship between gender, neuroticism, and nightmare distress. Overall, 1214 persons (716 women, 498 men) completed the dream questions and the Big Five Personality Inventory online. The beliefs about nightmares scale was related to neuroticism and openness to experience. However, the regression analysis indicated that a variety of factors like beliefs about nightmares, gender, neuroticism, and agreeableness contributed to nightmare distress independently from nightmare frequency. Given the marked influence of beliefs about nightmares on nightmare distress, it would be very interesting to study the effect of psycho-education presenting modern etiological models of nightmares on nightmare distress.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"40 1","pages":"177 - 188"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0276236620934371","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47427699","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}
{"title":"Affective Imagery Modifies Sweetness Sensitivity","authors":"Pei Liang, Hengbo Song, Soumyajit Roy","doi":"10.1177/0276236620933177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0276236620933177","url":null,"abstract":"Effects of vision on taste are well-documented phenomena. Yet the brain mechanism of such robust connection still remains unclear. It has been suggested that those stimulations which induce similar mood or pleasantness might be involved in the related cross-sensory and emotional neural circuit. In this article, the that the affective status of the brain might play the key role for such cross-sensory interaction. To test this hypothesis in this study, we use mental imagery as an affective primer to influence sweet sensitivity. The popular and well accepted emoticons with positive or negative meanings were applied as visual imageries. The results demonstrated that when the subjects recalled positive imagery, sweetness sensitivity increased significantly around sweetness threshold level. The sweetness sensitivity did not reduce significantly on recalling negative imagery. Such observation supports that affective status of the brain modifies sweetness sensitivity and underscores the need to further understand the role of emotion in cross-sensory integration.","PeriodicalId":89150,"journal":{"name":"Imagination, cognition and personality","volume":"40 1","pages":"154 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0276236620933177","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46309592","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}