Don Kuiken
Biographic Data
| ID | 1409131 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Don Kuiken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Don |
| FAMILY NAME | Kuiken |
| SIGNATURE | KUIKEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4330-2223 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 214 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Predicting impactful dreams: The contributions of absence-related melancholy and absence-related depression
Existential reflection and morality
This paper presents a series of three studies describing how reading literature promotes empathy and moral outcomes. We add three contrasts to this field of empirical study: (a) an explanatory and interpretative form of narrative reading engagement (Integrative Comprehension) is contrasted with an expressive and explicative form of aesthetic reading engagement (Expressive Enactment); (b) an explanatory and interpretive form of cognitive perspecti…
Capturing the Ways We Read
Metaphoric and associative aftereffects of impactful dreams
Continuity of reflective awareness across waking and dreaming states
Relationships between non-pathological dream-enactment and mirror behaviors
Nightmare frequency is related to a propensity for mirror behaviors
Bilateral Eye Movements, Attentional Flexibility and Metaphor Comprehension: The Substrate of REM Dreaming
Explanations for the effects of the rapid eye movements induced during Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR; Shapiro, 2001) have drawn upon an analogy with the eye movements of REM sleep (Kuiken, Bears, Miall, and Smith, 2002). An extension of that analogy posits two orienting systems, one involving threat-fear related mnemonic contextualization and another involving loss-pain related monitoring of conflicting response alternatives. In…
Expressive writing about dreams that follow trauma and loss
In a study of expressive writing about impactful dreams, the effects of writing instructions (factual writing, emotional writing, experiential writing) were examined among individuals who had recently experienced either significant trauma or significant loss. Among those who had recently experienced
The influence of impactful dreams on self-perceptual depth and spiritual transformation
Two studies contrasted the short-term effects of nightmares, existential dreams, and transcendent dreams (Busink & Kuiken, 1996; Kuiken & Sikora, 1993). Results from Study 1 indicated that existential dreams were more likely than mundane dreams, transcendent dreams, or nightmares to be followed by reported self-perceptual depth; also, transcendent dreams were more likely than mundane dreams, existential dreams, or nightmares to be followed by rep…
Locating Self-Modifying Feelings Within Literary Reading
Self-modifying feelings during literary reading were studied in relation to the personality trait, absorption. Participants read a short story, described their experience of 3 striking or evocative passages in the story, and completed the Tellegen Absorption Scale (Tellegen, 1982). Compared to readers with either low or moderate absorption scores, those high in absorption were more likely to report affective theme variations and self-perceptual s…
The Effects of Personal Involvement in Narrative Discourse
(2004). The Effects of Personal Involvement in Narrative Discourse. Discourse Processes: Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 169-172
Forms of Self-Implication in Literary Reading
Literary reading has the capacity to implicate the self and deepen self-understanding, but little is known about how and when these effects occur. The present article examines two forms of self-implication in literary reading. In one form, which functions like simile, there is explicitly recognized similarity between personal memories and some aspect of the world of the text (A is like B). In another form, which functions like metaphor, the reade…
The Typical Dreams of Canadian University Students
To investigate the dimensional structure of dreams, the Typical Dreams Questionnaire (TDQ) was administered to 1181 first-year University students in three Canadian cities. A profile of themes was found that varied little by age, gender or region; however, differences that were identified could be interpreted as due to developmental milestones, personality attributes or sociocultural factors. Factor analysis produced a solution consisting of 16 c…
A feeling for fiction: Becoming What We Behold
What is literariness? Three components of literary reading
It is now widely maintained that the concept of "literariness " has been critically examined and found deficient. Prominent postmodern literary theorists have argued that there are no special characteristics that distinguish literature from other texts. Similarly, cognitive psychology has often subsumed literary understanding within a general theory of discourse processing. However, a review of empirical studies of literary readers reveals traces…
The form of reading: Empirical studies of literariness
Coleridge and dreams: An introduction
Individual differences in orienting activity mediate feeling realization in dreams: II. Evidence from concurrent reports of movement inhibition
Existential dreams, which involve ineffectuality, sadness, and separation (Kuiken & Sikora, 1993), frequently provide shifts in feeling that sensitize dreamers to aspects of their lives they have previously ignored. To better understand that phenomenon, we examined whether individual differences in movement inhibition during the orienting response (either while awake or dreaming) would predict: (a) the enactment of dreams during awakening, (b) a …
Individual differences in orienting activity mediate feeling realization in dreams: I. Evidence from retrospective reports of movement inhibition
Identifying types of impactful dreams: A replication
In an attempt to replicate a classificatory study reported by Kuiken and Sikora (1993), thirty-six men and women reported a dream that was as impactful as their most impactful dream during the preceding month and then the first dream that they recalled at least four days later. Cluster analysis reve
Validating Dream Interpretation within the Jungian Tradition
Aspects of Literary Response: A New Questionnaire
A newly developed instrument, the Literary Response Questionnaire (LRQ), provides scales that measure seven different aspects of readers’ orientation toward literary texts: Insight, Empathy, Imagery Vividness, Leisure Escape, Concern with Author, Story-Driven Reading, and Rejection of Literary Values. The present report presents evidence that each of these scales possesses satisfactory internal consistency, retest reliability, and factorial valid…
The role of absorption in experiential involvement
The authors examined correlates of trait absorption to understand when and how pronounced engagement with attentional objects occurs. In Study 1 (N = 321), absorption and openness to experience were positively correlated (r =.64), and these involvement constructs were differentiated from Eysenck's Big 3 (Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Psychoticism; H. J. Eysenck & M. W. Eysenck, 1985). In Study 2 (N = 68), absorption was positively correlated wit…
Dreams and feeling realization
The Typical Dreams of Canadian University Students
To investigate the dimensional structure of dreams, the Typical Dreams Questionnaire (TDQ) was administered to 1181 first-year University students in three Canadian cities. A profile of themes was found that varied little by age, gender or region; however, differences that were identified could be interpreted as due to developmental milestones, personality attributes or sociocultural factors. Factor analysis produced a solution consisting of 16 c…
Foregrounding, defamiliarization, and affect: Response to literary stories
A feeling for fiction: Becoming What We Behold
Identifying types of impactful dreams: A replication
In an attempt to replicate a classificatory study reported by Kuiken and Sikora (1993), thirty-six men and women reported a dream that was as impactful as their most impactful dream during the preceding month and then the first dream that they recalled at least four days later. Cluster analysis reve
Beyond text theory: Understanding literary response
Approaches to text comprehension that focus on propositional, inferential, and elaborative processes have often been considered capable of extension in principle to literary texts, such as stories or poems. However, we argue that literary response is influenced by stylistic features that result in defamiliarization; that defamiliarization evokes feeling which, in turn, elicits personal perspectives and meanings; and that these aspects of literary…
Forms of Self-Implication in Literary Reading
Literary reading has the capacity to implicate the self and deepen self-understanding, but little is known about how and when these effects occur. The present article examines two forms of self-implication in literary reading. In one form, which functions like simile, there is explicitly recognized similarity between personal memories and some aspect of the world of the text (A is like B). In another form, which functions like metaphor, the reade…
The influence of impactful dreams on self-perceptual depth and spiritual transformation
Two studies contrasted the short-term effects of nightmares, existential dreams, and transcendent dreams (Busink & Kuiken, 1996; Kuiken & Sikora, 1993). Results from Study 1 indicated that existential dreams were more likely than mundane dreams, transcendent dreams, or nightmares to be followed by reported self-perceptual depth; also, transcendent dreams were more likely than mundane dreams, existential dreams, or nightmares to be followed by rep…
What is literariness? Three components of literary reading
It is now widely maintained that the concept of "literariness " has been critically examined and found deficient. Prominent postmodern literary theorists have argued that there are no special characteristics that distinguish literature from other texts. Similarly, cognitive psychology has often subsumed literary understanding within a general theory of discourse processing. However, a review of empirical studies of literary readers reveals traces…
The role of absorption in experiential involvement
The authors examined correlates of trait absorption to understand when and how pronounced engagement with attentional objects occurs. In Study 1 (N = 321), absorption and openness to experience were positively correlated (r =.64), and these involvement constructs were differentiated from Eysenck's Big 3 (Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Psychoticism; H. J. Eysenck & M. W. Eysenck, 1985). In Study 2 (N = 68), absorption was positively correlated wit…
Nonimmediate language style and inconsistency between private and expressed evaluations
Impactful dreams and metaphor generation
Dreams and feeling realization
Capturing the Ways We Read
Continuity of reflective awareness across waking and dreaming states
Expressive writing about dreams that follow trauma and loss
In a study of expressive writing about impactful dreams, the effects of writing instructions (factual writing, emotional writing, experiential writing) were examined among individuals who had recently experienced either significant trauma or significant loss. Among those who had recently experienced
Locating Self-Modifying Feelings Within Literary Reading
Self-modifying feelings during literary reading were studied in relation to the personality trait, absorption. Participants read a short story, described their experience of 3 striking or evocative passages in the story, and completed the Tellegen Absorption Scale (Tellegen, 1982). Compared to readers with either low or moderate absorption scores, those high in absorption were more likely to report affective theme variations and self-perceptual s…
Individual differences in orienting activity mediate feeling realization in dreams: I. Evidence from retrospective reports of movement inhibition
Individual differences in orienting activity mediate feeling realization in dreams: II. Evidence from concurrent reports of movement inhibition
Existential dreams, which involve ineffectuality, sadness, and separation (Kuiken & Sikora, 1993), frequently provide shifts in feeling that sensitize dreamers to aspects of their lives they have previously ignored. To better understand that phenomenon, we examined whether individual differences in movement inhibition during the orienting response (either while awake or dreaming) would predict: (a) the enactment of dreams during awakening, (b) a …
Bilateral Eye Movements, Attentional Flexibility and Metaphor Comprehension: The Substrate of REM Dreaming
Explanations for the effects of the rapid eye movements induced during Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR; Shapiro, 2001) have drawn upon an analogy with the eye movements of REM sleep (Kuiken, Bears, Miall, and Smith, 2002). An extension of that analogy posits two orienting systems, one involving threat-fear related mnemonic contextualization and another involving loss-pain related monitoring of conflicting response alternatives. In…
The role of grammatical qualification in the expression and perception of emotion
Conceptual complexity and concept learning of painting styles
Some Predictors of Volunteer Participation in Human Relations Training Groups
Though researchers have investigated the differences between volunteers and non-volunteers for psychological research, little is known about these differences when the research setting is a T-group. In the present study, volunteers and non-volunteers for T-groups were compared on authoritarianism, reported history of self-disclosure, and a series of questions on social relations. Volunteers, especially males, were lower in authoritarianism, where…
Conceptual complexity and concept learning of painting styles
Nonimmediate language style and inconsistency between private and expressed evaluations
The role of grammatical qualification in the expression and perception of emotion
The Effects of Death Contemplation on Meaning and Purpose in Life
Affective involvement during reflection on personal mortality was expected to facilitate psychological change. Twenty participants engaged in an age progression fantasy during which they imagined themselves gradually aging and eventually dying. Then, one-half of the participants evaluated their fantasy experiences objectively and one-half attended to their feelings about their fantasies and attempted to find words or images that characterized the…
Impactful dreams and metaphor generation
Beyond text theory: Understanding literary response
Approaches to text comprehension that focus on propositional, inferential, and elaborative processes have often been considered capable of extension in principle to literary texts, such as stories or poems. However, we argue that literary response is influenced by stylistic features that result in defamiliarization; that defamiliarization evokes feeling which, in turn, elicits personal perspectives and meanings; and that these aspects of literary…
Foregrounding, defamiliarization, and affect: Response to literary stories
Interpretation in The interpretation of dreams
Validating Dream Interpretation within the Jungian Tradition
Aspects of Literary Response: A New Questionnaire
A newly developed instrument, the Literary Response Questionnaire (LRQ), provides scales that measure seven different aspects of readers’ orientation toward literary texts: Insight, Empathy, Imagery Vividness, Leisure Escape, Concern with Author, Story-Driven Reading, and Rejection of Literary Values. The present report presents evidence that each of these scales possesses satisfactory internal consistency, retest reliability, and factorial valid…
The role of absorption in experiential involvement
The authors examined correlates of trait absorption to understand when and how pronounced engagement with attentional objects occurs. In Study 1 (N = 321), absorption and openness to experience were positively correlated (r =.64), and these involvement constructs were differentiated from Eysenck's Big 3 (Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Psychoticism; H. J. Eysenck & M. W. Eysenck, 1985). In Study 2 (N = 68), absorption was positively correlated wit…
Dreams and feeling realization
Individual differences in orienting activity mediate feeling realization in dreams: II. Evidence from concurrent reports of movement inhibition
Existential dreams, which involve ineffectuality, sadness, and separation (Kuiken & Sikora, 1993), frequently provide shifts in feeling that sensitize dreamers to aspects of their lives they have previously ignored. To better understand that phenomenon, we examined whether individual differences in movement inhibition during the orienting response (either while awake or dreaming) would predict: (a) the enactment of dreams during awakening, (b) a …
Individual differences in orienting activity mediate feeling realization in dreams: I. Evidence from retrospective reports of movement inhibition
Identifying types of impactful dreams: A replication
In an attempt to replicate a classificatory study reported by Kuiken and Sikora (1993), thirty-six men and women reported a dream that was as impactful as their most impactful dream during the preceding month and then the first dream that they recalled at least four days later. Cluster analysis reve
Coleridge and dreams: An introduction
The form of reading: Empirical studies of literariness
What is literariness? Three components of literary reading
It is now widely maintained that the concept of "literariness " has been critically examined and found deficient. Prominent postmodern literary theorists have argued that there are no special characteristics that distinguish literature from other texts. Similarly, cognitive psychology has often subsumed literary understanding within a general theory of discourse processing. However, a review of empirical studies of literary readers reveals traces…
A feeling for fiction: Becoming What We Behold
The Typical Dreams of Canadian University Students
To investigate the dimensional structure of dreams, the Typical Dreams Questionnaire (TDQ) was administered to 1181 first-year University students in three Canadian cities. A profile of themes was found that varied little by age, gender or region; however, differences that were identified could be interpreted as due to developmental milestones, personality attributes or sociocultural factors. Factor analysis produced a solution consisting of 16 c…
Locating Self-Modifying Feelings Within Literary Reading
Self-modifying feelings during literary reading were studied in relation to the personality trait, absorption. Participants read a short story, described their experience of 3 striking or evocative passages in the story, and completed the Tellegen Absorption Scale (Tellegen, 1982). Compared to readers with either low or moderate absorption scores, those high in absorption were more likely to report affective theme variations and self-perceptual s…
The Effects of Personal Involvement in Narrative Discourse
(2004). The Effects of Personal Involvement in Narrative Discourse. Discourse Processes: Vol. 38, No. 2, pp. 169-172
Forms of Self-Implication in Literary Reading
Literary reading has the capacity to implicate the self and deepen self-understanding, but little is known about how and when these effects occur. The present article examines two forms of self-implication in literary reading. In one form, which functions like simile, there is explicitly recognized similarity between personal memories and some aspect of the world of the text (A is like B). In another form, which functions like metaphor, the reade…
The influence of impactful dreams on self-perceptual depth and spiritual transformation
Two studies contrasted the short-term effects of nightmares, existential dreams, and transcendent dreams (Busink & Kuiken, 1996; Kuiken & Sikora, 1993). Results from Study 1 indicated that existential dreams were more likely than mundane dreams, transcendent dreams, or nightmares to be followed by reported self-perceptual depth; also, transcendent dreams were more likely than mundane dreams, existential dreams, or nightmares to be followed by rep…
Psychology (32 works) · Cognitive psychology (15 works) · Linguistics (15 works) · Sleep and Wakefulness Research (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Psychoanalysis (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Art (9 works) · Feeling (9 works)