When dreaming is believing: the (motivated) interpretation of dreams.

Carey K. Morewedge; M. Norton

DOI:10.1037/a0013264

Corpus ID: 5706448

When dreaming is believing: the (motivated) interpretation of dreams.

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  title={When dreaming is believing: the (motivated) interpretation of dreams.},
  author={Carey K. Morewedge and M. Norton},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={2009},
  volume={96 2},
  pages={
          249-64
        }
}

Carey K. Morewedge, M. Norton

Published 2009

Psychology, Medicine

Journal of personality and social psychology

This research investigated laypeople's interpretation of their dreams. Participants from both Eastern and Western cultures believed that dreams contain hidden truths (Study 1) and considered dreams to provide more meaningful information about the world than similar waking thoughts (Studies 2 and 3). The meaningfulness attributed to specific dreams, however, was moderated by the extent to which the content of those dreams accorded with participants' preexisting beliefs--from the theories they… CONTINUE READING

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