New directions in the study of dream content using the Hall and Van de Castle coding system

Both methodological and statistical innovations add to the usefulness of the Hall and Van de Castle system for the content analysis of dream reports. In addition, there are weaknesses in most rating scales for the study of dream content, and numerous methodological and statistical problems call into question many past studies of dream content. In an introduction to this special issue, these possibilities and problems are discussed and then demonstrated through a critique of the literature on gender and dream content

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• Neurophysiological features of dream recall and the phenomenology of dreams

  Open Access•Gulshan Kumar, Safoora Naaz et al.•Consciousness and Cognition•2025

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• Similarities and differences in dream content at the cross-cultural, gender, and individual levels

  Open Access•G William Domhoff, Adam Schneider•Consciousness and Cognition•2008

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• Emotion and Cognition

  Open Access•David Kahn, Edward Pace-Schott et al.•Consciousness and Cognition•2002

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• Toward Dream Cartography

  Cristina M Iosifescu Enescu, Jacques Montangero et al.•Cartographica The International…•2015

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• Gender Differences in a Content Analysis Study of 608 Dream Reports From Research Participants in the United States

  Open Access•Stanley Krippner, Jan Weinhold•Social Behavior and Personality…•2002

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• Content Analysis—A Methodological Primer for Gender Research

  Open Access•Kimberly A Neuendorf•Sex Roles•2010

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• The dreams of blind men and women

  Craig S Hurovitz, Sarah E Dunn et al.•Dreaming•1999

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• Dream relevance and the continuity hypothesis

  David B King, Teresa L Decicco•Dreaming•2009

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• The development of cognitive and emotional processing as reflected in children's dreams

  Piroska Sándor, Sára Szakadát et al.•Dreaming•2016

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• Dream content of 10- to 11-year-old preadolescent boys and girls

  Cristina Riva Crugnola, Alfio Maggiolini et al.•Dreaming•2008

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• Personal Problem-Solving Using Dream Incubation

  Gregory L White, Laurel Taytroe•Dreaming•2003

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• The most recent dreams of 12-13 year-old boys and girls

  Deborah Avila-White, Adam Schneider et al.•Dreaming•1999

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• Cognitive differences in dream content and boundary structure between Asian and Pacific Islander Americans and European Americans using quantitative content analysis

  Robert Tartz, Robert S Tartz et al.•Dreaming•2006

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• The words of adolescents' dreams

  Alfio Maggiolini, Paolo Azzone et al.•Dreaming•2003

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• Much ado about very little

  G William Domhoff, Adam Schneider•Dreaming•1999

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• Stereotypical gender-based emotions are not detectable in dream reports

  David Kahn, J Allan Hobson•Dreaming•2002

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• Medication and dreams

  Nili T Kirschner•Dreaming•1999

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• Lucid Dreaming and Personality

  A Patrick, Audrey W Patrick et al.•Dreaming•2004

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• Theory of Mind in Dreaming

  David Kahn, Allan Hobson•Dreaming•2005

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• Nonparametric statistics for the behavioral sciences

  Sidney Siegel•Nonparametric statistics for the…•1988

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• The Content Analysis of Dreams

  William Stephenson, Calvin S Hall et al.•The American Journal of Psychology•1967

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• Research Methods in the Behavioral Sciences

  Jiri Nehnevajsa, Leon Festinger et al.•American Sociological Review•1954

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• The dreams of blind men and women

  Craig S Hurovitz, Sarah E Dunn et al.•Dreaming•1999

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• The most recent dreams of 12-13 year-old boys and girls

  Deborah Avila-White, Adam Schneider et al.•Dreaming•1999

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• Much ado about very little

  G William Domhoff, Adam Schneider•Dreaming•1999

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• Personality and dreaming

  Ernest Hartmann, Rachel Elkin et al.•Dreaming•1991

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• Continuity and change

  Lucie Côté, Monique Lortie-Lussier et al.•Dreaming•1996

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• The effects of dream length on the relationship between primary process in dreams and creativity

  Glenn Livingston, Ross Levin•Dreaming•1991

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• Medication and dreams

  Nili T Kirschner•Dreaming•1999

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• The dreams of professional mothers and female students

  Natalie Rinfret, Monique Lortie-Lussier et al.•Dreaming•1991

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• How metaphor structures dreams

  George Lakoff•Dreaming•1993

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• The home dreams and waking fantasies of boys and girls between ages 9 and 15

  Inge Strauch, Sibylle Lederbogen•Dreaming•1999

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• The most recent dreams of children ages 8-11

  Sharon Saline•Dreaming•1999

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• Drawing theoretical implications from descriptive empirical findings on dream content

  G William Domhoff•Dreaming•1999

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• "Masochism" in dreaming and its relation to depression

  Rosalind Cartwright, Rosalind D Cartwright•Dreaming•1992

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