REALITY CLOSENESS, PHANTASY, AND AUTOKINESIS - A DIMENSION OF COGNITIVE STYLE

Hypothesizes that in the autokinetic situation, some people maintain a reality-close life style, while others allow attention to drift toward more subjective endopsychic experiences. The relationship between reality closeness, fantasy proneness, and autokinesis is examined in a pilot study with 48 in- and outpatient Ss and 2 replication studies. The relevance of findings to the psychoanalytic theory of ego functioning is discussed. (18 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.