John F Kihlstrom
Biographic Data
| ID | 1659660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John F Kihlstrom |
| GIVEN NAMES | John F |
| FAMILY NAME | Kihlstrom |
| SIGNATURE | KIHLSTROM J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3481-6433 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Ecological Validity and “Ecological Validity”
Egon Brunswik coined the term ecological validity to refer to the correlation between perceptual cues and the states and traits of a stimulus. Martin Orne adapted the term to refer to the generalization of experimental findings to the real world outside the laboratory. Both are legitimate uses of the term because the ecological validity of the cues in an experiment determines the ecological validity of the experiment itself
Personality, Cognition and Social Interaction
Originally published in 1981, this volume presents the domain of personality as a fuzzy set that includes features previously identified with cognitive and social psychology. Few of the individual contributions are centrally concerned with individual differences and cross-situational stability, but these traditional themes certainly appear in several of the chapters. The remaining chapters deal with the general processes mediating the interaction…
Patterns of hypnotic response, revisited
Prospects for de-automatization
Availability, accessibility, and subliminal perception
Memory and Temporal Experience: The Effects of Episodic Memory Loss on an Amnesic Patient's Ability to Remember the Past and Imagine the Future
This article examines the effects of memory loss on a patient's ability to remember the past and imagine the future. We present the case of D.B., who, as a result of hypoxic brain damage, suffered severe amnesia for the personally experienced past. By contrast, his knowledge of the nonpersonal past was relatively preserved. A similar pattern was evidenced in his ability to anticipate future events. Although D.B. had great difficulty imagining wha…
Obituary: Kenneth S. Bowers (1937–1996)
Obituary: Kenneth S. Bowers (1937-1996)
Person Memory: Organization of Behaviors by Traits
Dissociations and dissociation theory in hypnosis: Comment on Kirsch and Lynn (1998)
Dissociations and dissociation theory in hypnosis: Comment on Kirsch and Lynn (1998)
I. Kirsch and S. J. Lynn's (1998) critique of the neodissociation theory of divided consciousness fails to consider evidence of dissociations between explicit and implicit memory and perception in hypnosis. Contrary to their conclusions, evidence that the rate of hidden observer response (like other hypnotic responses) varies with the wording of instructions does not contradict neodissociation theory; rather, it underscores the fact that hypnosis…
Mental Representations of Persons and Personality
Memory, abuse, and science
Memory, abuse, and science
Memory and Consciousness: An Appetite of Claparède and Recognition et Moı̈ı̈tè
Claparède's report of a case of amnesic syndrome is an early example of the cognitive neuropsychology paradigm, by which studies of brain-damaged patients are used to shed light on the nature of normal mental processes. The case illustrates the selective impairment of episodic memory, with procedural and semantic memory remaining intact. Moreover, the several demonstrations of preserved learning during amnesia comprise an early illustration of th…
The Trauma-Memory Argument
The trauma-memory argument proposes that memories of childhood trauma can affect adult behavior outside awareness and that such unconscious memories can return to awareness even after long delays. Unfortunately, this conclusion is based on case reports of unknown representativeness and on clinical studies which are methodologically flawed or do not consider alternative explanations. Of particular concern is the general lack of independent verific…
Obituary: Julius Wishner (1921-1993)
Julius Wishner (1921–1993)
The Continuum of Consciousness
Dissociation and dissociations: A comment on consciousness and cognition
The psychological unconscious: Found, lost, and regained
Absorption, openness to experience, and hypnotizability
Absorption, a correlate of hypnotizability, is conceptually related to openness to experience. Study 1 found no evidence that gender moderated the correlation between absorption and hypnotizability, or of nonlinear trends. Study 2 showed that openness was factorially complex, and that absorption was related to imaginative involvement, but not to social-political liberalism. Study 3 found small quadratic trends in the relations between these varia…
Absorption and hypnotizability: Context effects reexamined
Two independent studies failed to find evidence consistent with Council, Kirsch, and Hafner (1986), who argued that the repeatedly observed correlations between Tellegen's (1981) Absorption Scale (TAS) and hypnosis measures were artifacts of testing context, and de Groot, Gwynn, and Spanos (1988), who claimed evidence for a Gender x Context moderator effect. In the present studies, Ss completed the TAS and other personality questionnaires on 2 oc…
The Cognitive Unconscious
Contemporary research in cognitive psychology reveals the impact of nonconscious mental structures and processes on the individual's conscious experience, thought, and action. Research on perceptual-cognitive and motoric skills indicates that they are automatized through experience, and thus rendered unconscious. In addition, research on subliminal perception, implicit memory, and hypnosis indicates that events can affect mental functions even th…
Introduction to the special issue: Integrating personality and social psychology
Prototype matching: A strategy for social decision making
College students responded to a series of questionnaires while they were in the process of selecting housing from a choice of seven available options for the coming fall. Questionnaires concerned their self-concepts, their housing prototypes, their preferences in housing, and their goals in housing selection. Overall analyses of the self-to-prototype matching strategy suggest that most students indeed prefer the type of housing for which their pr…
Absorption, openness to experience, and hypnotizability
Absorption, a correlate of hypnotizability, is conceptually related to openness to experience. Study 1 found no evidence that gender moderated the correlation between absorption and hypnotizability, or of nonlinear trends. Study 2 showed that openness was factorially complex, and that absorption was related to imaginative involvement, but not to social-political liberalism. Study 3 found small quadratic trends in the relations between these varia…
Absorption and hypnotizability: Context effects reexamined
Two independent studies failed to find evidence consistent with Council, Kirsch, and Hafner (1986), who argued that the repeatedly observed correlations between Tellegen's (1981) Absorption Scale (TAS) and hypnosis measures were artifacts of testing context, and de Groot, Gwynn, and Spanos (1988), who claimed evidence for a Gender x Context moderator effect. In the present studies, Ss completed the TAS and other personality questionnaires on 2 oc…
Person Memory: Organization of Behaviors by Traits
Introduction to the special issue: Integrating personality and social psychology
An S-R inventory of dominance for research on the nature of person-situation interactions1
The development and validation of an S-R inventory of dominance is described. The inventory was found to have high reliability, adequate convergent and discriminant validity, and a meaningful factor structure. In samples of 18 and 164 college students the interaction between persons and situations contributed more to total score variance than did either persons or situations taken separately. Moreover, the percentage of variance due to the person…
The earliest recollection: A new survey
High school (N= 150) and college (N= 164) students completed a survey of their earliest personal recollection (ER). These memories typically were of events occurring in the fourth year of life, and varied widely in terms of content and associated affect. The ERs of the high school sample were dated significantly later, contained more traumatic content, and were more likely to possess the qualities of a “screen memory” than were those of the colle…
"Hidden observer" phenomenon in hypnosis: An experimental creation
Spanos and Hewitt (1980) have recently argued, on the basis of an experiment they report, that Hilgard's "hidden observer" phenomenon is pure laboratory artifact. This report reviews their claim and concludes on the following grounds that their experiment does not warrant so sweeping a conclusion: (a) Spanos and Hewitt have posed the issue as fact versus fiction and do not appear to be aware of a third alternative, namely, that the hidden observe…
Prototype matching: A strategy for social decision making
College students responded to a series of questionnaires while they were in the process of selecting housing from a choice of seven available options for the coming fall. Questionnaires concerned their self-concepts, their housing prototypes, their preferences in housing, and their goals in housing selection. Overall analyses of the self-to-prototype matching strategy suggest that most students indeed prefer the type of housing for which their pr…
More on determinants of delay of gratification
More on determinants of delay of gratification
The Cognitive Unconscious
Contemporary research in cognitive psychology reveals the impact of nonconscious mental structures and processes on the individual's conscious experience, thought, and action. Research on perceptual-cognitive and motoric skills indicates that they are automatized through experience, and thus rendered unconscious. In addition, research on subliminal perception, implicit memory, and hypnosis indicates that events can affect mental functions even th…
Introduction to the special issue: Integrating personality and social psychology
Absorption, openness to experience, and hypnotizability
Absorption, a correlate of hypnotizability, is conceptually related to openness to experience. Study 1 found no evidence that gender moderated the correlation between absorption and hypnotizability, or of nonlinear trends. Study 2 showed that openness was factorially complex, and that absorption was related to imaginative involvement, but not to social-political liberalism. Study 3 found small quadratic trends in the relations between these varia…
Absorption and hypnotizability: Context effects reexamined
Two independent studies failed to find evidence consistent with Council, Kirsch, and Hafner (1986), who argued that the repeatedly observed correlations between Tellegen's (1981) Absorption Scale (TAS) and hypnosis measures were artifacts of testing context, and de Groot, Gwynn, and Spanos (1988), who claimed evidence for a Gender x Context moderator effect. In the present studies, Ss completed the TAS and other personality questionnaires on 2 oc…
Dissociation and dissociations: A comment on consciousness and cognition
The psychological unconscious: Found, lost, and regained
The Continuum of Consciousness
Memory and Consciousness: An Appetite of Claparède and Recognition et Moı̈ı̈tè
Claparède's report of a case of amnesic syndrome is an early example of the cognitive neuropsychology paradigm, by which studies of brain-damaged patients are used to shed light on the nature of normal mental processes. The case illustrates the selective impairment of episodic memory, with procedural and semantic memory remaining intact. Moreover, the several demonstrations of preserved learning during amnesia comprise an early illustration of th…
The Trauma-Memory Argument
The trauma-memory argument proposes that memories of childhood trauma can affect adult behavior outside awareness and that such unconscious memories can return to awareness even after long delays. Unfortunately, this conclusion is based on case reports of unknown representativeness and on clinical studies which are methodologically flawed or do not consider alternative explanations. Of particular concern is the general lack of independent verific…
Obituary: Julius Wishner (1921-1993)
Julius Wishner (1921–1993)
Mental Representations of Persons and Personality
Memory, abuse, and science
Memory, abuse, and science
Dissociations and dissociation theory in hypnosis: Comment on Kirsch and Lynn (1998)
Dissociations and dissociation theory in hypnosis: Comment on Kirsch and Lynn (1998)
I. Kirsch and S. J. Lynn's (1998) critique of the neodissociation theory of divided consciousness fails to consider evidence of dissociations between explicit and implicit memory and perception in hypnosis. Contrary to their conclusions, evidence that the rate of hidden observer response (like other hypnotic responses) varies with the wording of instructions does not contradict neodissociation theory; rather, it underscores the fact that hypnosis…
Obituary: Kenneth S. Bowers (1937–1996)
Obituary: Kenneth S. Bowers (1937-1996)
Person Memory: Organization of Behaviors by Traits
Psychology (31 works) · Cognitive psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Psychoanalysis (11 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (10 works) · Cognition (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Neuroscience (8 works) · Personality (8 works) · Cognitive science (7 works)