Dream Relevance and the Continuity Hypothesis: Believe It or Not?

Dreaming

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 207-217

  King, David B ^a   DeCicco, Teresa L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

belief; continuity hypothesis; dreams; health; self construal

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149161567     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017612     Document Type: Article

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