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The narrative of dream reports

open access: yes, 1989
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Two questions are addressed: 1) whether a dream is meaningful as a whole, or whether the scenes are separate and unconnected, and 2) whether dream images ...
Blagrove, M.T, Blagrove, Mark Thomas
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The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
wiley   +1 more source

The Puzzle of Paradoxical Insomnia

open access: yes, 2013
The current study investigated differences in objective sleep measures and subjective sleep measures between people with paradoxical insomnia and people with accurate perceptions of sleep, finding that sleep onset latency and wake after sleep onset time ...
Peltz, Kristina
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Out of the dark – Psychological perspectives on people's fascination with true crime

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract The success of the true crime media genre reflects humanity's avid curiosity about violence, deviance, and murder, yet psychological research on this phenomenon is lacking. In this article, we highlight why true crime consumption may be relevant to various research fields that go beyond simple media preferences.
Corinna Perchtold‐Stefan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A review of lifestyle factors that contribute to important pathways associated with major depression: Diet, sleep and exercise

open access: yes, 2013
Research on major depression has confirmed that it is caused by an array of biopsychosocial and lifestyle factors. Diet, exercise and sleep are three such influences that play a significant mediating role in the development, progression and treatment of ...
Hood, S.D.   +2 more
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What is it like to be an infant?

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychotherapy, EarlyView.
Abstract In the philosophy of mind literature, consciousness is commonly defined not in terms of its physical correlates but rather its subjective character – the ‘something that it is like to be' an organism. In this conceptual article, this formulation is applied to the study of neonate subjectivity, giving rise to the question: what is it like to be
Matthew Goldreich
wiley   +1 more source

LLM‐based prior elicitation for Bayesian graphical modeling

open access: yesBritish Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the Bayesian graphical modeling framework, priors on network structure encode theoretical assumptions and uncertainty about the topology of psychological constructs under study. For instance, the Bernoulli prior specifies the probability of each pairwise interaction, the Beta–Bernoulli prior governs expected network density, and the ...
Nikola Sekulovski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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