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| Authors: | Susan Malcolm-Smith Mark Solms Oliver Turnbull Colin Tredoux |
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| Affiliation: | aACSENT Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa;bDepartments of Psychology and Neurology, University of Cape Town, South Africa;cSchool of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor, UK |
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Malcolm-Smith, Solms, Turnbull and Tredoux [Malcolm-Smith, S., Solms, M., Turnbull, O., & Tredoux, C. (2008). Threat in dreams: An adaptation? Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1281–1291.] conducted a rigorous study that sampled two populations differentially exposed to threat in real life, and found that critical predictions from the Threat Simulation Theory of dreams [Revonsuo, A. (2000a). The reinterpretation of dreams: An evolutionary hypothesis of the function of dreaming. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 877-901.; Revonsuo, A. (2000b). Did ancestral humans dream for their lives? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 1063–1082.] were not supported. Specifically, we found no evidence of increased realistic threats to physical survival or enhanced threat avoidance in the dreams of those from the exposed population. Revonsuo and Valli’s [Revonsuo, A., & Valli, K. (2008). How to test the threat simulation theory. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1292-1296.] commentary on our study argues that the methods we used are so flawed as to render the results meaningless. In this response article, we address the criticisms raised in their commentary. |
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| Keywords: | Threat Simulation Theory Evolutionary psychology Function of dreaming Dream content |
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