Towards the Scientific Study of Imagination

Singer, Jerome L.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-1179-9_1

Theoretical and Clinical Applications 1983

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-1179-9_1

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Towards the Scientific Study of Imagination

Jerome L. Singer¹

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“…This then, can lead to creative problem-solving (Singer, 1981) and suggests a link between daydreaming and creativity (Singer, 1975). This theme was taken up more recently, in an article in Newsweek (2009) which described daydreaming as a 'propitious mental state for creativity, insight and problem solving' (Begley et al 2009) in which 'truly novel solutions and ideas emerge' due to the daydreaming brain being able to bring together unrelated facts and thoughts.…”

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Does Being Bored Make Us More Creative?

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Cadman

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Creativity Research Journal

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Does Being Bored Make Us More Creative?

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Gender Comparisons within Reenactment Costume: Theoretical Interpretations

Miller

1998

Family & Consum Sci Res J

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The purpose of the study was to explore why individuals dress in costume. From a symbolic interactionist perspective, the study extends Stone's theory of adultfantastic socialization and Eicher's framework of dress and the public, private, and secret self. The study also introduces the concept of afantasy‐prone personality within the study of dress. The Dressingfor Fun and Fantasy Questionnaire was developed and administered to 216 individuals who dress in costume. Data were analyzed using qualitative, quantitative, and critical analyses approaches. Data analyzedfor this study include reasonsfor interest in costuming (via checklistformat) and respondents' written comments to an open‐ended question. Results indicate thatfemales dress in costume primarily to assume another persona, whereas males dress in costume primarily because oftheir love of history. Theoretical explanations are given, an expansion of Eicher's model is proposed, and recommendations are madeforfuture study.

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Fantasy-Proneness, Negative Affect, and Psychopathology

Rauschenberger

Lynn

2003

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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More than three quarters (76%) of the fantasty-prone college students (total N = 21) who scored in the upper 4% of the population on the Inventory of Childhood Memories and Imaginings (ICMI) [1] and who were administered a diagnostic interview met the criteria for either a past or present Axis I diagnosis according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders [2] compared with 30% of medium fantasy prone students (total N = 20) who scored within 1/2 a standard deviation of the mean on the ICMI. Negative affectivity, as measured by the General Temperament Survey [3], was found to mediate the relation between fantasy and current Axis-I disorder, but not past Axis-I disorder. Whereas 5% of the medium fantasy prones received a dissociative disorder diagnosis, 33% of the fantasizers did so, with dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DDNOS) constituting three quarters of the total dissociative diagnoses. Fantasizers also reported more dissociative experiences and more tenuous cognitive, affective, and attentional control than their non fantasy-prone counterparts. In general, the results provide confirmation of the findings of Rauschenberger and Lynn [4].

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Towards the Scientific Study of Imagination

Cited by 4 publications

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Does Being Bored Make Us More Creative?

Does Being Bored Make Us More Creative?

Gender Comparisons within Reenactment Costume: Theoretical Interpretations

Fantasy-Proneness, Negative Affect, and Psychopathology

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