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The illusory function of dreams: Another example of cognitive bias

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2001

Linda Mealey
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, College of St. Benedict, St. Joseph, MN 56374 lmealey@csbsju.edu www.employees.csbsju.edu/mealey

Abstract

Patterns of dream content indicating a predominance of themes relating to threat are likely to reflect biases in dream recall and dream scoring techniques. Even if this pattern is not artifactual, it is yet reflective of threat-related biases in our conscious and nonconscious waking cognition, and is not special to dreams.

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Type
Brief Report
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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