Letter from the Guest Editor

Kathryn Belicki, Guest Editor, provides an introduction to the articles featured in this issue

Reasons for Forgiving: Individual Differences and Emotional Outcomes

This research is part of a program to identify common forms of forgiveness and study the outcomes associated with different ways of forgiving. Two samples, one in Canada (N = 274) and one in India (N = 159), completed a third version of the Reasons for Forgiving Questionnaire (R4FQ), several measures of individual differences, as well as measures of affect and mood while imagining their injurer. Nine R4FQ subscales were derived: For the Relationship, To Feel Better, Based on Principle, Because Injurer Reformed, To Demonstrate Moral Superiority, Because Understood Injurer, For God, Because of Social Pressure, and For Pragmatic Reasons. These subscales were differentially related to religiosity, attachment security, trait anger, collectivism, and individualism. Positive emotional outcomes were associated with forgiving for the relationship, based on principle, because injurer reformed, and because understood injurer. In contrast, negative outcomes were associated with forgiving To Demonstrate Moral Superiority, Because of Social Pressure, and For Pragmatic Reasons.Brock University Library Open Access Publishing Fun

Lucidity Association Chair, Harry Hunt, Interviewed

Harry Hunt is a professor of psychology at Brock University, chair of the Lucidity Association, and member of the board of directors of the Association for the Study of Dreams. The Multiplicity of Dreams, his book recently published by Yale University Press, has been hailed as “original and thought provoking, ...makes an important contribution to the field.” Hunt, along with his colleague Robert Ogilvie were among the first sleep researchers to seriously investigate lucid dreaming in the sleep laboratory

Limitations in the Utility of Lucid Dreaming and Dream Control as Techniques for Treating Nightmares

In the past several years I have been studying nightmares and in that context have examined the factors that prompt people to seek treatment for these experiences. Given that several articles in this issue of Lucidity Letter address the positive and negative aspects of lucidity and dream control. I thought I would add my reflections on this issue with respect to treating nightmares

Limitations in the Utility of Lucid Dreaming and Dream Control as Techniques for Treating Nightmares

In the past several years I have been studying nightmares and in that context have examined the factors that prompt people to seek treatment for these experiences. Given that over the years, many articles in Lucidity Letter have addressed the positive and negative aspects of lucidity and dream control, I thought I would add my reflections on this issue with respect to treating nightmares