Who wrote that? Automaticity and reduced sense of agency in individuals prone to dissociative absorption |
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| Institution: | 1. The Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel;2. Zlotowski Center for Neuroscience, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel;1. Département de Psychologie, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, QC H2X 3P2, Canada;2. Département de Psychiatrie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada;1. The Consciousness States and Psychopathology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel;2. Israel Defense Force Medical Corps, Tel Hashomer, Ramat-Gan, Israel;3. Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel;1. Social Cognitive Systems – Cluster of Excellence Center in Cognitive Interactive Technology (CITEC), Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany;2. Institute for Psychological Science, School of Applied Social Sciences, De Montfort University, Leicester, United Kingdom;1. School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, 63404 Tel Aviv, Israel;2. Department of Psychology, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel |
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| Abstract: | Dissociative absorption (DA) is a tendency to become completely immersed in a stimulus while neglecting to attend to one’s surroundings. Theoretically, DA implies automatic functioning in areas that are outside the focus of attention. This study examined whether high absorbers indeed act more automatically, i.e., with decreased meta-consciousness for, and therefore poor memory of, their own actions, along with reduced sense of agency (SoA). High and low absorbers (N = 63) performed three DA-promoting tasks: choice-reaction time (CRT), Tetris, and free writing. Participants were tested on memory of task details and self-reported their state SoA. As hypothesized, trait DA was correlated with impaired autobiographical memory for self-generated writing. However, DA was not related to episodic memory disruptions in externally-generated content tasks (Tetris, CRT). In most tasks, DA was associated with decreased SoA. Absorbers’ specific difficulty in identifying self-generated content suggests that their memory failures stem from reduced accessibility to self-actions and intentions. |
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| Keywords: | Dissociation Absorption Automatic writing Autobiographical memory Sense of agency Automaticity |
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