Abstract
In this fourth issue of the 34th Volume of Imagination, Cognition and Personality, we begin with two articles examining relationships between imagination and personality, proceed with three articles focusing on cognition, and conclude with one article examining relationships between consciousness and imagination. The lead article by M. L. Sánchez-Bernardos, M. J. Hernández Lloreda, M. D. Avia, and C. Bragado-Alvarez from Spain reveals that one component of imagination—its developmental antecedent involving pretense and make-believe—is correlated with high extraversion and that a second vividness/intensity component of imagination is correlated with low conscientiousness. And in the second article examining imagination and personality, Ju-Sen Lin, Wen-Shan Chang, and Chaoyun Liang from Taiwan find that an initiating type of imagination is correlated with high extraversion and that two other types—a conceiving imagination and a transforming imagination—are correlated with high conscientiousness .
In this issue’s third article, the first of three on cognition, Tristan Visconti and Robert Kunzendorf from Massachusetts find that, compared with people exhibiting an “abduction 1” logical style that accounts for more facts, people exhibiting an “abduction 2” logical style that accounts for newly discovered facts are more likely to exhibit both a deductive logical style and a visual cognitive style. In the fourth article, Tempii Champion and Jessica Bruny from New York, Allyssa McCabe from Massachusetts, and Nicholas Cuneo from Maryland find that Creole narratives of Haitian adults retain structural aspects of their African ancestors’ storytelling, notwithstanding the many generations and linguistic differences separating such adults from their ancestors. And in the fifth article, David Cicero from Hawaii, Joshua Hicks from Texas, and Laura King from Missouri show that faith in intuition and positive mood interact to predict accuracy in both an implicit learning paradigm measuring pattern recognition and an operant conditioning paradigm measuring S-R contingency judgment.
This issue’s sixth and final article examines the relationship between two “higher” states of consciousness: lucid dream imagery and mindfulness. In this final article, Tadas Stumbrys from Germany, Daniel Erlacher from Switzerland, and Peter Malinowski from the United Kingdom present evidence that, in people acquainted with meditation but not in other people, lucid dream frequency is associated with dispositional mindfulness and is associated more strongly with mindful presence than with acceptance.
In the concluding book review presented by our Book Review Editors, Amedeo D’Angiulli and Nicholas Brink, Canadian reviewer Patricia Van Roon discusses Norman Doidge’s book The Brain That Changes Itself. As we look back on this 34th Volume and look forward to our 35th, we want to express our appreciation to everyone who contributes articles and book reviews to the journal, everyone who serves on our Advisory and Editorial Boards and everyone else who reviews manuscripts for us, plus everyone who supports the journal with their subscriptions and readership.