Examined the relationship between clarity of imagery and depression reduction and determined whether Ss who elaborated on positive fantasies were more successful in therapy than those Ss who merely practiced positive daydreams. Thirty depressed college females were pretested with the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), randomly assigned to one of three groups for a 3‐week period, and then were posttested with the BDI. The groups were a no treatment control, a positive imagery group, and a positive imagery group who elaborated on their daydreams. Ss were asked to rate the clarity of imagery on a scale from 1 to 10. Analysis of covariance found no significant treatment effect, but vividness of imagery was correlated significantly with depression reduction.

Attempted to determine whether daydreaming is reactive to self‐monitoring, whether one method of self‐monitoring was superior to another, and whether there was any relationship between initial attitude toward daydreaming and change in daydreaming frequency over time. Twenty‐nine male and 30 female infrequent daydreamers participated. One experimental group tallied their daydreams for 3 weeks; the second tallied and logged the content of their daydreams, and the third group was a control. An orthogonal planned comparison showed that there was a significant difference between the control group and the average of the treatment groups, but neither method of self‐monitoring was superior to the other.