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Research paper thumbnail of Scoring System for Contextualizing Images

Research paper thumbnail of Does Existential Meaning Require Hope, or is Interest Enough?

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, Mar 1, 2008

One hundred seventy-one subjects were administered Crumbaugh and Maholick's (1981) Purpose in Lif... more One hundred seventy-one subjects were administered Crumbaugh and Maholick's (1981) Purpose in Life Test as a measure of meaninglessness versus existential meaning; Beck, Weissman, Lester, and Trexler's (1974) Hopelessness Scale as a measure of hopelessness versus hope; and Farmer and Sundberg's (1986) Boredom Proneness Scale as a measure of boredom versus interest. Four findings emerged. First, either hope alone or interest alone was sufficient to elevate existential meaning. Second, interest alone was associated with a level of meaning statistically equivalent to the levels associated with hope alone and with hope and interest combined. Third, loss of hope was associated with suicidal ideation, but loss of interest was not. Fourth, compared to subjects identifying with no religion, those identifying with a religion exhibited significantly greater hopefulness, but not significantly greater interest. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed. Ever since the late 19th-century advent of existential approaches to life and death, the meaning of life has been deemed a psychological issue and not necessarily a religious issue. According to some existentialists, the psychological experiences of meaningfulness and meaninglessness reflect, respectively, the presence or the absence of phenomenally experienced hope for the future. But according to others, 233

Research paper thumbnail of A Personal Note to Our Readers

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Hypnotic Hallucinations as "Unmonitored" Images: An Empirical Study

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Repression as the Monitoring and Censoring of Images: An Empirical Study

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Subconscious Percepts as "Unmonitored" Percepts: An Empirical Study

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1984

Research paper thumbnail of Editors' Statement

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Boundaries and Dreams

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of The Effect of Image Vividness on Reality Monitoring

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of The Archaic Belief in Dream Visitations as it Relates to "Seeing Ghosts," "Meeting the Lord," As Well as "Encountering Extraterrestrials

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2007

The current study was designed to determine whether archaic belief in the external origins of dre... more The current study was designed to determine whether archaic belief in the external origins of dream visitations survives and whether it accounts for the paranormal experience of seeing ghosts, the fundamentalist religious experience of “meeting the Lord,” and the sci-fi ...

Research paper thumbnail of ENVISIONING OTHER MINDS: THE ARTISTIC DRAWING AND PSYCHOMETRIC RATING OF IMAGES AND PERCEPTS

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2001

During half of this two-hour study, 28 individually tested subjects completed the MMPI. At the ou... more During half of this two-hour study, 28 individually tested subjects completed the MMPI. At the outset of the second hour, each subject photographed a frightening view, then described his or her percept of the view as a student artist made a colored chalk drawing of the ...

Research paper thumbnail of THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES DELINEATING TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2006

... ROBERT G. KUNZENDORF MELISSA DEIGNAN MABEL GALVA KAITLIN LATORRE ERIN MASOTTA University of M... more ... ROBERT G. KUNZENDORF MELISSA DEIGNAN MABEL GALVA KAITLIN LATORRE ERIN MASOTTA University of Massachusetts Lowell ABSTRACT Subjects completed the Boundary Questionnaire, the Conceptions of Truth Inventory (CTI), and a “false memory” paradigm. ...

Research paper thumbnail of REFRAMING COGNITIVE THERAPY TO INTEGRATE RECENT RESEARCH ON EMOTION, IMAGERY, AND SELF-TALK

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2003

... MICHELLE MCGLONE ... ELIZABETH BRAMHALL ... In studying different types of depressed students... more ... MICHELLE MCGLONE ... ELIZABETH BRAMHALL ... In studying different types of depressed students, for example, Kunzendorf, Moran, and Gray developed both a No Meaning Scale, to identify students whose existential depression stems from a futuristic focus on death, and a ...

Research paper thumbnail of EMOTION MAKES DAYDREAMS MORE DREAMLIKE, MORE SYMBOLIC

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2003

Two experiments investigating the effect of emotion on daydreaming were conducted. In Experiment ... more Two experiments investigating the effect of emotion on daydreaming were conducted. In Experiment 1, 44 subjects described a recent daydream and a memorable daydream, a laboratory-generated daydream without concurrent emotion and a laboratory-generated daydream with ...

Research paper thumbnail of Dreaming and Daydreaming About Dreadful Possibilities: Primal Fears Versus Existential Fears

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2007

... DIANA PEREIRA ... which are listed in the bottom portion of Table 1. Gert Heilbrunn (1955) su... more ... DIANA PEREIRA ... which are listed in the bottom portion of Table 1. Gert Heilbrunn (1955) suggests that the first of these primal fears, the fear of being eaten, is grounded in instinct rather than in self-reflection and is manifested in children's fairy tales (such as Hansel and Gretel ...

Research paper thumbnail of THE FINE LINE BETWEEN FANTASIZING TORTURE AND COUNTENANCING ABU GHRAIB

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2005

... COUNTENANCING ABU GHRAIB ROBERT G. KUNZENDORF DIAMANTINA LIMA JOSELYN ACEVEDO CORTNEY LYNN DA... more ... COUNTENANCING ABU GHRAIB ROBERT G. KUNZENDORF DIAMANTINA LIMA JOSELYN ACEVEDO CORTNEY LYNN DANIELLE BARRASSO SARA WILLIAMS SCARLEN LEGER University of Massachusetts Lowell ABSTRACT Over ...

Research paper thumbnail of Do Psychologically Autonomous Individuals Behave as if They Have Free Will?

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of The Sense of Self in Lucid Dreams: "Self as Subject" vs. "Self as Agent" vs. "Self as Object

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2006

... NICOLE TREANTAFEL ... then completed the four questionnaires in the booklet: the State-Specif... more ... NICOLE TREANTAFEL ... then completed the four questionnaires in the booklet: the State-Specific Sense of Self Survey (detailed above), the Attention to Incongruity in Dreams Questionnaire or AIDQ (mentioned above and summarily reproduced in Table 1), Rawlings' (2001-2002 ...

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Safe’ Fantasy: The Self-Conscious Boundary Between Wishing and Willing

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1992

... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Journal Article]. "Safe" fantasy: The self-conscious... more ... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Journal Article]. "Safe" fantasy: The self-conscious boundary between wishing and willing. Kunzendorf, Robert; Carrabino, Carlene; Capone, Daniel. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, Vol 12(2), 1992-1993, 177-188. ...

Research paper thumbnail of DISSOCIATION IN AMBIDEXTROUS STUDENTS

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1991

Research paper thumbnail of Scoring System for Contextualizing Images

Research paper thumbnail of Does Existential Meaning Require Hope, or is Interest Enough?

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, Mar 1, 2008

One hundred seventy-one subjects were administered Crumbaugh and Maholick's (1981) Purpose in Lif... more One hundred seventy-one subjects were administered Crumbaugh and Maholick's (1981) Purpose in Life Test as a measure of meaninglessness versus existential meaning; Beck, Weissman, Lester, and Trexler's (1974) Hopelessness Scale as a measure of hopelessness versus hope; and Farmer and Sundberg's (1986) Boredom Proneness Scale as a measure of boredom versus interest. Four findings emerged. First, either hope alone or interest alone was sufficient to elevate existential meaning. Second, interest alone was associated with a level of meaning statistically equivalent to the levels associated with hope alone and with hope and interest combined. Third, loss of hope was associated with suicidal ideation, but loss of interest was not. Fourth, compared to subjects identifying with no religion, those identifying with a religion exhibited significantly greater hopefulness, but not significantly greater interest. The clinical implications of these findings are discussed. Ever since the late 19th-century advent of existential approaches to life and death, the meaning of life has been deemed a psychological issue and not necessarily a religious issue. According to some existentialists, the psychological experiences of meaningfulness and meaninglessness reflect, respectively, the presence or the absence of phenomenally experienced hope for the future. But according to others, 233

Research paper thumbnail of A Personal Note to Our Readers

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2016

Research paper thumbnail of Hypnotic Hallucinations as "Unmonitored" Images: An Empirical Study

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Repression as the Monitoring and Censoring of Images: An Empirical Study

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1985

Research paper thumbnail of Subconscious Percepts as "Unmonitored" Percepts: An Empirical Study

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1984

Research paper thumbnail of Editors' Statement

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Boundaries and Dreams

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of The Effect of Image Vividness on Reality Monitoring

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1992

Research paper thumbnail of The Archaic Belief in Dream Visitations as it Relates to "Seeing Ghosts," "Meeting the Lord," As Well as "Encountering Extraterrestrials

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2007

The current study was designed to determine whether archaic belief in the external origins of dre... more The current study was designed to determine whether archaic belief in the external origins of dream visitations survives and whether it accounts for the paranormal experience of seeing ghosts, the fundamentalist religious experience of “meeting the Lord,” and the sci-fi ...

Research paper thumbnail of ENVISIONING OTHER MINDS: THE ARTISTIC DRAWING AND PSYCHOMETRIC RATING OF IMAGES AND PERCEPTS

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2001

During half of this two-hour study, 28 individually tested subjects completed the MMPI. At the ou... more During half of this two-hour study, 28 individually tested subjects completed the MMPI. At the outset of the second hour, each subject photographed a frightening view, then described his or her percept of the view as a student artist made a colored chalk drawing of the ...

Research paper thumbnail of THE PSYCHOLOGICAL BOUNDARIES DELINEATING TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2006

... ROBERT G. KUNZENDORF MELISSA DEIGNAN MABEL GALVA KAITLIN LATORRE ERIN MASOTTA University of M... more ... ROBERT G. KUNZENDORF MELISSA DEIGNAN MABEL GALVA KAITLIN LATORRE ERIN MASOTTA University of Massachusetts Lowell ABSTRACT Subjects completed the Boundary Questionnaire, the Conceptions of Truth Inventory (CTI), and a “false memory” paradigm. ...

Research paper thumbnail of REFRAMING COGNITIVE THERAPY TO INTEGRATE RECENT RESEARCH ON EMOTION, IMAGERY, AND SELF-TALK

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2003

... MICHELLE MCGLONE ... ELIZABETH BRAMHALL ... In studying different types of depressed students... more ... MICHELLE MCGLONE ... ELIZABETH BRAMHALL ... In studying different types of depressed students, for example, Kunzendorf, Moran, and Gray developed both a No Meaning Scale, to identify students whose existential depression stems from a futuristic focus on death, and a ...

Research paper thumbnail of EMOTION MAKES DAYDREAMS MORE DREAMLIKE, MORE SYMBOLIC

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2003

Two experiments investigating the effect of emotion on daydreaming were conducted. In Experiment ... more Two experiments investigating the effect of emotion on daydreaming were conducted. In Experiment 1, 44 subjects described a recent daydream and a memorable daydream, a laboratory-generated daydream without concurrent emotion and a laboratory-generated daydream with ...

Research paper thumbnail of Dreaming and Daydreaming About Dreadful Possibilities: Primal Fears Versus Existential Fears

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2007

... DIANA PEREIRA ... which are listed in the bottom portion of Table 1. Gert Heilbrunn (1955) su... more ... DIANA PEREIRA ... which are listed in the bottom portion of Table 1. Gert Heilbrunn (1955) suggests that the first of these primal fears, the fear of being eaten, is grounded in instinct rather than in self-reflection and is manifested in children's fairy tales (such as Hansel and Gretel ...

Research paper thumbnail of THE FINE LINE BETWEEN FANTASIZING TORTURE AND COUNTENANCING ABU GHRAIB

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2005

... COUNTENANCING ABU GHRAIB ROBERT G. KUNZENDORF DIAMANTINA LIMA JOSELYN ACEVEDO CORTNEY LYNN DA... more ... COUNTENANCING ABU GHRAIB ROBERT G. KUNZENDORF DIAMANTINA LIMA JOSELYN ACEVEDO CORTNEY LYNN DANIELLE BARRASSO SARA WILLIAMS SCARLEN LEGER University of Massachusetts Lowell ABSTRACT Over ...

Research paper thumbnail of Do Psychologically Autonomous Individuals Behave as if They Have Free Will?

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of The Sense of Self in Lucid Dreams: "Self as Subject" vs. "Self as Agent" vs. "Self as Object

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 2006

... NICOLE TREANTAFEL ... then completed the four questionnaires in the booklet: the State-Specif... more ... NICOLE TREANTAFEL ... then completed the four questionnaires in the booklet: the State-Specific Sense of Self Survey (detailed above), the Attention to Incongruity in Dreams Questionnaire or AIDQ (mentioned above and summarily reproduced in Table 1), Rawlings' (2001-2002 ...

Research paper thumbnail of ‘Safe’ Fantasy: The Self-Conscious Boundary Between Wishing and Willing

Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 1992

... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Journal Article]. "Safe" fantasy: The self-conscious... more ... Citation. Database: PsycINFO. [Journal Article]. "Safe" fantasy: The self-conscious boundary between wishing and willing. Kunzendorf, Robert; Carrabino, Carlene; Capone, Daniel. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, Vol 12(2), 1992-1993, 177-188. ...

Research paper thumbnail of DISSOCIATION IN AMBIDEXTROUS STUDENTS

Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1991

Research paper thumbnail of Review of book On the Evolution of Conscious Sensation, Conscious Imagination, and Consciousness of Self

Imagination, Cognition, and Personality

Occasionally, Imagination, Cognition, and Personality publishes reviews of new books from its rea... more Occasionally, Imagination, Cognition, and Personality publishes reviews of new books from its readers. Good reviews provide a valuable service by informing readers of new books and by critically informing them to the major issues that are addressed. If you wish to submit a review, before proceeding, please send an email of intent identifying the book using APA format (author, title, and publisher) to the senior, managing coeditor, James Honeycutt at sphone@lsu.edu. The Editor reserves the right of final decision on publication. Keywords human development and behavior, ideology, perception Kunzendorf, R. G. (2015). On the evolution of conscious sensation, conscious imagination, and consciousness of self. Amityville, NY: Baywood. Hardcover, pp. 138, 42.95,ISBN:978−0−89503−901−9;Paperback,pp.138,42.95, ISBN: 978-0-89503-901-9; Paperback, pp. 138, 42.95,ISBN:978−0−89503−901−9;Paperback,pp.138,34.95, ISBN: 978-0-89503-902-6; eBook, $27.96, ISBN: 978-0-89503-904-0.