Steven Jay Lynn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1661649 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Jay Lynn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven Jay |
| FAMILY NAME | Lynn |
| SIGNATURE | LYNN S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4493-7810 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness
You’re Gonna Need Way More Variables: ” What Trans Masculine, Nonbinary, and Agender Individuals Want Sex Researchers to Understand
Cis-heteronormative frameworks have inadequately addressed the complexity of trans masculine, nonbinary, and agender (TMNB) individuals' sexual attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and experiences, often marginalizing these perspectives. To fully capture the richness of TMNB sexuality, it is essential for researchers to resist the constraints of cis-heteronormativity by employing participatory research methods that center TMNB voices and lived realitie…
Remember walking in their shoes? The relation of self-referential source memory and emotion recognition
Deficits in the ability to read the emotions of others have been demonstrated in mental disorders, such as dissociation and schizophrenia, which involve a distorted sense of self. This study examined whether weakened self-referential source memory, being unable to remember whether a piece of information has been processed with reference to oneself, is linked to ineffective emotion recognition. In two samples from a college and community, we quant…
How hypnotic suggestions work – A systematic review of prominent theories of hypnosis
A novel ego dissolution scale: A construct validation study
Toward a Science of Clinical Psychology: A Tribute to the Life and Works of Scott O. Lilienfeld
This book provides an introduction to clinical psychology, collecting contributions from leading authorities to comment on past and future insights
Toward a Science of Clinical Psychology: A Tribute to the Life and Works of Scott O. Lilienfeld
Belief in Unconscious Repressed Memory Persists
On the basis of converging research, we concluded that the controversial topic of unconscious blockage of psychological trauma (i.e., repressed memory) remains very much alive in clinical, legal, and academic contexts. In his commentary, Brewin (this issue, p. 443) conducted a cocitation analysis and concluded that scholars do not adhere to the concept of unconscious repression. Furthermore, he argued that previous survey research did not specifi…
Quality of life, emotion regulation, and dissociation: Evaluating unique relations in an undergraduate sample and probable PTSD subsample
ER dimensions (e.g., dissociation, blaming others, impulsivity) may represent novel treatment targets for tailored psychosocial interventions promoting QoL in the general population and individuals with PTSD. Future longitudinal studies with a larger trauma-exposed sample are necessary to replicate and extend our findings. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Symptom overreporting and dissociative experiences: A qualitative review
Psychology: From Inquiry to Understanding
On the alleged memory-undermining effects of daydreaming
Self-reports of trauma and dissociation: An examination of context effects
Hypnosis, hypnotic suggestibility, memory, and involvement in films
Sleep experiences, dissociation, imaginal experiences, and schizotypy: The role of context
Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence (2nd ed.)
The trauma model of dissociation: Inconvenient truths and stubborn fictions. Comment on Dalenberg et al. (2012)
Dalenberg et al. (2012) argued that convincing evidence (a) supports the longstanding trauma model (TM), which posits that early trauma plays a key role in the genesis of dissociation; and (b) refutes the fantasy model (FM), which posits that fantasy proneness, suggestibility, cognitive failures, and other variables foster dissociation. We review evidence bearing on Dalenberg et al.'s 8 predictions and find them largely wanting in empirical suppo…
Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
Handbook of Clinical Hypnosis
Near-death experiences: Out of body and out of mind
Cognitive processes, trauma, and dissociation—Misconceptions and misrepresentations: Reply to Bremner (2010)
research literature on cognitive processes in dissociation. In a comment, Bremner (2010) has voiced reservations about our contention that evidence for the causal role of trauma in dissociation is limited. In this reply, we argue that Bremner’s arguments are unconvincing and that a closer examination of the dissociation literature only strengthens the basis for our conclusions. Specifically, we show that disso-ciation exhibits a robust associatio…
Not all group hypnotic suggestibility scales are created equal: Individual differences in behavioral and subjective responses
Is hypnotic suggestibility a stable trait
Cognitive processes in dissociation: An analysis of core theoretical assumptions
Dissociation is typically defined as the lack of normal integration of thoughts, feelings, and experiences into consciousness and memory. The present article critically evaluates the research literature on cognitive processes in dissociation. The authors' review indicates that dissociation is characterized by subtle deficits in neuropsychological performance (e.g., heightened distractibility). Some of the cognitive phenomena (e.g., weakened cogni…
An Evaluation of Woodard's Theory of Perceptually Oriented Hypnosis
Contrast effects and their relationship to subsequent behavior
The fantasy-prone person: Hypnosis, imagination, and creativity
The present study evaluated the so-called fantasy prone personality by selecting subjects who ranged along the continuum of fantasy proneness and then administering measures designed to assess hypnotic susceptibility (Harvard Group Scale, HGSHS:A; Shor & Orne, 1962), absorption (Tellegen Absorption Scale; Tellegen, 1976), vividness of mental imagery (QMI; Sheehan, 1967), response to waking suggestion (Creative Imagination Scale; Wilson & Barber, …
The altered state of hypnosis: Changes in the theoretical landscape
Presentations of theories of hypnosis in scholarly and introductory texts portray the field as dominated by two warring camps, variously referred to as state and nonstate or as special process and social psychological. Current issues and theories in the hypnosis literature are examined. In the process, we seek to dispel the myth that hypnosis theorists can be grouped into two camps. Although there is considerable controversy about the nature of h…
Three theories of self-disclosure exchange
Automaticity in clinical psychology
Fantasy proneness and psychopathology
Fantasy prone persons ("fantasizers") selected from "normal" populations report experiences associated with psychopathology in clinical populations (e.g., fantasies that reach hallucinatory proportions, difficulty discriminating reality from fantasy). In Study 1, we administered objective (MMPI) and projective (Rorschach) measures to high fantasy prone individuals (upper 4% of college population), medium fantasy prone individuals (middle range), …
Cognitive processes in dissociation: An analysis of core theoretical assumptions
Dissociation is typically defined as the lack of normal integration of thoughts, feelings, and experiences into consciousness and memory. The present article critically evaluates the research literature on cognitive processes in dissociation. The authors' review indicates that dissociation is characterized by subtle deficits in neuropsychological performance (e.g., heightened distractibility). Some of the cognitive phenomena (e.g., weakened cogni…
Dissociation theories of hypnosis
Hypnotic responses have been attributed to 2 mechanisms that are characterized as dissociative. In E. R. Hilgard's (1986) neodissociation theory, responses are hypothesized to be due to a division of consciousness into 2 or more simultaneous streams, separated by an amnesic barrier that prevents access to suggestion-related executive functions, monitoring functions, or both. In K. S. Bowers's (1992) dissociated control theory, hypnotic inductions…
Dissociative identity disorder and the sociocognitive model: Recalling the lessons of the past
In a recent article in this journal, D. H. Gleaves (1996) criticized the sociocognitive model (SCM; N. P. Spanos, 1994) of dissociative identity disorder (DID) and argued in favor of a posttraumatic model (PTM) in which DID is conceptualized as a consequence of childhood abuse and other traumatic events. The present authors demonstrate that (a) many of Gleaves's arguments were predicated on misunderstandings of the SCM, (b) scrutiny of the eviden…
Enhancing hypnotic susceptibility: Interpersonal and rapport factors
You’re Gonna Need Way More Variables: ” What Trans Masculine, Nonbinary, and Agender Individuals Want Sex Researchers to Understand
Cis-heteronormative frameworks have inadequately addressed the complexity of trans masculine, nonbinary, and agender (TMNB) individuals' sexual attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, and experiences, often marginalizing these perspectives. To fully capture the richness of TMNB sexuality, it is essential for researchers to resist the constraints of cis-heteronormativity by employing participatory research methods that center TMNB voices and lived realitie…
Goal-directed fantasy, hypnotic susceptibility, and expectancies
We conducted an initial screening session in which hypnosis was presented as a "test of imagination" and administered with other imagination measures. In a second session, we instructed high- and low-hypnotizable subjects to imagine along with suggestions but to resist responding to motoric suggestions. Subjects received either instructions to use goal-directed fantasies (GDFs) or no facilitative instructions. Sizable individual difference effect…
Trance logic, susceptibility screening, and the transparency response
Contrast effects and their relationship to subsequent behavior
Three theories of self-disclosure exchange
The effects of competent behavior on interpersonal attraction and task leadership
Samuel Johnson and the Sense of History
Trance logic, susceptibility screening, and the transparency response
The fantasy-prone person: Hypnosis, imagination, and creativity
The present study evaluated the so-called fantasy prone personality by selecting subjects who ranged along the continuum of fantasy proneness and then administering measures designed to assess hypnotic susceptibility (Harvard Group Scale, HGSHS:A; Shor & Orne, 1962), absorption (Tellegen Absorption Scale; Tellegen, 1976), vividness of mental imagery (QMI; Sheehan, 1967), response to waking suggestion (Creative Imagination Scale; Wilson & Barber, …
Fantasy Proneness: Developmental Antecedents
Wilson and Barber (1981) identified a “personality type” characterized by an extensive and deep involvement in fantasy that they termed “fantasy prone personalities” This study investigated the developmental antecedents of fantasy proneness as part of a larger research project designed to examine the construct validity of the fantasy prone personality Fantasy prone ( n = 21, upper 4% of college population), medium range ( n = 20) and nonfantasy p…
Goal-directed fantasy, hypnotic susceptibility, and expectancies
We conducted an initial screening session in which hypnosis was presented as a "test of imagination" and administered with other imagination measures. In a second session, we instructed high- and low-hypnotizable subjects to imagine along with suggestions but to resist responding to motoric suggestions. Subjects received either instructions to use goal-directed fantasies (GDFs) or no facilitative instructions. Sizable individual difference effect…
Fantasy proneness and psychopathology
Fantasy prone persons ("fantasizers") selected from "normal" populations report experiences associated with psychopathology in clinical populations (e.g., fantasies that reach hallucinatory proportions, difficulty discriminating reality from fantasy). In Study 1, we administered objective (MMPI) and projective (Rorschach) measures to high fantasy prone individuals (upper 4% of college population), medium fantasy prone individuals (middle range), …
Enhancing hypnotic susceptibility: Interpersonal and rapport factors
Fantasy proneness: Hypnosis, developmental antecedents, and psychopathology
Fantasy proneness: Hypnosis, developmental antecedents, and psychopathology
Dr. Samuel Johnson and James Boswell
Hypnosis and pseudomemories: The effects of prehypnotic expectancies
Contrary to predictions, the pseudomemory rate of subjects who received prehypnotic information that hypnosis increased recall was indistinguishable from the pseudomemory rates of subjects who received information that hypnosis did not increase recall and of subjects who received no specific prehypnotic information. Indeed, by the last recall trial, none of the 47 subjects exhibited pseudomemory. Subjects exhibited faulty memory of events that ac…
Interpersonal climate and hypnotizability level: Effects on hypnotic performance, rapport, and archaic involvement
This research was designed to extend earlier research by McConkey and Sheehan by testing 24 hypnotizable and 21 unhypnotizable Ss, prescreened with the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, in high interpersonal/high rapport and low interpersonal/low rapport testing contexts
Samuel Johnson after Deconstruction: Rhetoric and "The Rambler"
Hypnosis, dissociation, and simultaneous-task performance
We contrasted the simultaneous task performance of participants high and low (simulators) in hypnotizability and high and low in dissociative ability across hypnosis, divided attention, and passive waking conditions. Findings were not consistent with neodissociation or revised neodissociation theory. Task interference was comparable in hypnotic and passive waking conditions ; both conditions enhanced performance (i.e., speed) relative to divided …
The altered state of hypnosis: Changes in the theoretical landscape
Presentations of theories of hypnosis in scholarly and introductory texts portray the field as dominated by two warring camps, variously referred to as state and nonstate or as special process and social psychological. Current issues and theories in the hypnosis literature are examined. In the process, we seek to dispel the myth that hypnosis theorists can be grouped into two camps. Although there is considerable controversy about the nature of h…
Dissociating the wheat from the chaff in theories of hypnosis: Reply to Kihlstrom (1998) and Woody and Sadler (1998)
Although there are noteworthy commonalities among disparate theories of hypnosis, they are neither as readily integrated nor as complementary as J.F. Kihlstrom (1998) and E. Woody and P. Sadler (1998) implied. All current theories of hypnosis, including our social cognitive model, are provisional and incomplete, and each has something of value to offer. However, the multiple streams of consciousness hypothesis and the hypnotic state hypothesis sh…
Dissociating the wheat from the chaff in theories of hypnosis: Reply to Kihlstrom (1998) and Woody and Sadler (1998)
Dissociation theories of hypnosis
Hypnotic responses have been attributed to 2 mechanisms that are characterized as dissociative. In E. R. Hilgard's (1986) neodissociation theory, responses are hypothesized to be due to a division of consciousness into 2 or more simultaneous streams, separated by an amnesic barrier that prevents access to suggestion-related executive functions, monitoring functions, or both. In K. S. Bowers's (1992) dissociated control theory, hypnotic inductions…
Dissociative identity disorder and the sociocognitive model: Recalling the lessons of the past
Automaticity in clinical psychology
Dissociative identity disorder and the sociocognitive model: Recalling the lessons of the past
In a recent article in this journal, D. H. Gleaves (1996) criticized the sociocognitive model (SCM; N. P. Spanos, 1994) of dissociative identity disorder (DID) and argued in favor of a posttraumatic model (PTM) in which DID is conceptualized as a consequence of childhood abuse and other traumatic events. The present authors demonstrate that (a) many of Gleaves's arguments were predicated on misunderstandings of the SCM, (b) scrutiny of the eviden…
An Evaluation of Woodard's Theory of Perceptually Oriented Hypnosis
Psychology (43 works) · Cognitive psychology (20 works) · Developmental psychology (19 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Clinical Psychology (17 works) · Hypnosis (17 works) · Pain Management and Placebo Effect (14 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Psychotherapist (12 works)