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| Title |
Imagining the impossible before breakfast: the relation between creativity, dissociation, and sleep
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, March 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00324 |
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| Authors |
Dalena van Heugten - van der Kloet, Jan Cosgrave, Harald Merckelbach, Ross Haines, Stuart Golodetz, Steven Jay Lynn |
| Abstract |
Dissociative symptoms have been related to higher rapid eye movement sleep density, a sleep phase during which hyperassociativity may occur. This may enhance artistic creativity during the day. To test this hypothesis, we conducted a creative photo contest to explore the relation between dissociation, sleep, and creativity. During the contest, participants (N = 72) took one photo per day for five consecutive days, based on specific daily themes (consisting of single words) and the instruction to take as creative a photo as possible each day. Furthermore, they completed daily measures of state dissociation and a short sleep diary. The photos and their captions were ranked by two professional photographers and two clinical psychologists based on creativity, originality, bizarreness, and quality. We expected that dissociative people would rank higher in the contest compared with low-dissociative participants, and that the most original photos would be taken on days when the participants scored highest on acute dissociation. We found that acute dissociation predicted a higher ranking on creativity. Poorer sleep quality and fewer hours of sleep predicted more bizarreness in the photos and captions. None of the trait measures could predict creativity. In sum, acute dissociation related to enhanced creativity. These findings contribute to our understanding of dissociative symptomatology. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 2 | 18% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 18% |
| Norway | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 6 | 55% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 82% |
| Scientists | 1 | 9% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 79 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| Portugal | 2 | 3% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 1% |
| Sweden | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 73 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 14% |
| Researcher | 11 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 8 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 10% |
| Professor | 6 | 8% |
| Other | 23 | 29% |
| Unknown | 12 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 40 | 51% |
| Neuroscience | 5 | 6% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 4% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 12 | 15% |
| Unknown | 13 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 September 2019.
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