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Organisation et récupération de l'information sur les attributs et les noms
No full textLoftus Elizabeth F., Turbiaux Marcel. Organisation et récupération de l'information sur les attributs et les noms. In: Bulletin de psychologie, tome 29, numéro spécial, 1976. Spécial annuel 1976 : La mémoire sémantique. pp. 69-75
Using imagination and personalized suggestion to change people
No full textThe power of suggestion to change what people say and do is well known. We review some past findings and describe a new method for influencing people's recollection of the past. This method, which we call the Expert Personalized Suggestion Paradigm (EPS), relies on expertise and personalization to achieve more influence than has been shown in many previous studies of suggestibility. A short session involving this powerful form of suggestion can influence the autobiography of individuals. These findings provide a cautionary message regarding casual interpretation of client data, and may inspire the development of new techniques for changing clients in positive ways
When dreams become reality
No full textIn three experiments, we found that after a subtle suggestion, subjects falsely recognized words from their own dreams and thought they had been presented during the waking state. The procedure used in these studies involved three phases. Subjects studied a list of words on Day 1. On Day 2, they received a false suggestion that some words from their previously reported dreams had been presented on the list. On Day 3, they tried to recall only what had occurred on the initial list. Subjects falsely recognized their dream words at a very high rate - sometimes as often as they accurately recognized true words. They reported that they genuinely "remembered" the dream words, as opposed to simply "knowing" that they had been previously presented. These findings, which suggest that dreams can sometimes be mistaken for reality, have significant implications for the practice of psychotherapy. © 1996 Academic Press
Changing beliefs about implausible autobiographical events: A little plausibility goes a long way
No full textThree experiments investigated the malleability of perceived plausibility and the subjective likelihood of occurrence of plausible and implausible events among participants who had no recollection of experiencing them. In Experiment 1, a plausibility-enhancing manipulation (reading accounts of the occurrence of events) combined with a personalized suggestion increased the perceived plausibility of the implausible event, as well as participants' ratings of the likelihood that they had experienced it. Plausibility and likelihood ratings were uncorrelated. Subsequent studies showed that the plausibility manipulation alone was sufficient to increase likelihood ratings but only if the accounts that participants read were set in a contemporary context. These data suggest that false autobiographical beliefs can be induced in clinical and forensic contexts even for initially implausible events
Dreaming, believing, and remembering
No full textPresents the findings of several years of empirical research involving the use of dreams in therapy and explores the extent to which the authors could use dream material, or even dream interpretation, to influence Ss' recollections of the past. Initial studies investigated whether a gentle suggestion could get people to believe falsely that items that came from their dream reports were words they had seen on a list that had been shown to them earlier in the experiment. Later studies examined whether not-so-gentle suggestions could get people to to believe falsely that items that came from their dream reports proved that they had had certain critical experiences in their childhood. Results showed that Ss could be made to have false beliefs with both gentle and not-so-gentle suggestions. Specific issues addressed include: dream experiences and false memories; self-generated stories and false memories; dream interpretation and false childhood beliefs; remembering danger that never happened; the power of dream interpretation; and from suggestion to belief in memory
Dream interpretation and false beliefs
No full textDream interpretation is a common practice in psychotherapy. In the research presented in this article, each participant saw a clinician who interpreted a recent dream report to be a sign that the participant had had a mildly traumatic experience before age 3 years, such as being lost for an extended time or feeling abandoned by his or her parents. This dream intervention caused a majority of participants to become more confident that they had had such an experience, even though they had previously denied it. These findings have implications for the use of dream material in clinical settings. In particular, the findings point to the possibility that dream interpretation may have unexpected side effects if it leads to beliefs about the past that may, in fact, be false
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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