TY - JOUR
T1 - Leave everything to the imagination
T2 - Cognitive functioning of individuals high in dissociative absorption and imaginative involvement
AU - Bregman-Hai, Noa
AU - Abitbul-Gordon, Shirley
AU - Deutsch, Inbal
AU - Garbi, Dror
AU - Shelef, Leah
AU - Soffer-Dudek, Nirit
N1 - Funding Information: The study was supported by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Medical Corps and Directorate of Defense Research & Development, Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD DDR&D). The funding source had no involvement in the design of the study, analyses, or interpretation. Funding Information: The study was supported by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Medical Corps and Directorate of Defense Research & Development, Israeli Ministry of Defense (IMOD DDR&D). We would like to thank Col. Dr. Erez Carmon, Col. Dr. Eyal Fructer and Lut. Idit Oz for supporting this study. The data used for this study belong to the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and were collected on soldiers in the course of their service. Thus, unfortunately, we are not in a position to share them. Publisher Copyright: © 2018
PY - 2018/10/1
Y1 - 2018/10/1
N2 - Dissociative “absorption and imaginative involvement” is a tendency to become immersed in a stimulus while neglecting one's surroundings, engage in vivid imagination, confuse fantasy with reality, and act automatically. We aimed to identify the specific impairments and benefits in cognitive functioning which may characterize dissociative absorption. We hypothesized that absorbers will demonstrate impaired inhibition and working memory alongside superior imagination abilities. Healthy young Israeli soldiers (N = 160) performed a battery of cognitive tasks. As hypothesized, absorbers were substantially faster in a mental rotation task, and demonstrated impaired accuracy in cognitive tasks demanding high capacity of working memory, inhibition and sustained attention, stemming mostly from commission, rather than omission, errors. Our findings objectively validate the self-reported heightened imaginative abilities characterizing dissociative absorption.
AB - Dissociative “absorption and imaginative involvement” is a tendency to become immersed in a stimulus while neglecting one's surroundings, engage in vivid imagination, confuse fantasy with reality, and act automatically. We aimed to identify the specific impairments and benefits in cognitive functioning which may characterize dissociative absorption. We hypothesized that absorbers will demonstrate impaired inhibition and working memory alongside superior imagination abilities. Healthy young Israeli soldiers (N = 160) performed a battery of cognitive tasks. As hypothesized, absorbers were substantially faster in a mental rotation task, and demonstrated impaired accuracy in cognitive tasks demanding high capacity of working memory, inhibition and sustained attention, stemming mostly from commission, rather than omission, errors. Our findings objectively validate the self-reported heightened imaginative abilities characterizing dissociative absorption.
KW - Absorption
KW - Cognitive functioning
KW - Dissociation
KW - Executive functioning
KW - Imagination
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrp.2018.08.004
DO - 10.1016/j.jrp.2018.08.004
M3 - Article
SN - 0092-6566
VL - 76
SP - 129
EP - 138
JO - Journal of Research in Personality
JF - Journal of Research in Personality
ER -