Comments on: Sleep and Dream Patterns of Political Liberals and Conservatives http://kellybulkeley.com/sleep-dream-patterns-political-liberals-conservatives/ KellyBulkeley.com Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:08:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Kelly Bulkeley http://kellybulkeley.com/sleep-dream-patterns-political-liberals-conservatives/comment-page-1/#comment-25 Kelly Bulkeley Sat, 26 Dec 2009 15:57:54 +0000 http://kellybulkeley.com/?p=1357#comment-25 Good point, these are earlier writings that I'm just now posting to the revised website. The study from 1996-2000 included a finding that conservatives had more nightmares than liberals. The study using dreams gathered from 2000-2004 showed a roughly equal number of nightmares among cons and libs. Those projects were limited by small sample sizes (56 in the earlier, 234 in the later). If you're interested, I describe a bigger study of con/lib differences in sleep and dreaming in my 2008 book American Dreamers. Good point, these are earlier writings that I’m just now posting to the revised website.

The study from 1996-2000 included a finding that conservatives had more nightmares than liberals. The study using dreams gathered from 2000-2004 showed a roughly equal number of nightmares among cons and libs.

Those projects were limited by small sample sizes (56 in the earlier, 234 in the later). If you’re interested, I describe a bigger study of con/lib differences in sleep and dreaming in my 2008 book American Dreamers.

]]> By: biophil http://kellybulkeley.com/sleep-dream-patterns-political-liberals-conservatives/comment-page-1/#comment-21 biophil Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:13:17 +0000 http://kellybulkeley.com/?p=1357#comment-21 I don't understand the time line of these postings.. in this one you say that "Liberals and conservatives report a roughly equal proportion of bad dreams and nightmares. This is different from my earlier study (using dreams gathered from 1996-2000), when the conservatives had many more nightmarish dreams than the liberals." and in http://kellybulkeley.com/strange-politics-dreaming/ which was posted on the same day Nov 29th you say "What does it mean that conservative Republicans have almost three times as many nightmares as do liberal Democrats? I suppose that the former is the more recent, but this is not entirely clear.. I don’t understand the time line of these postings.. in this one you say that “Liberals and conservatives report a roughly equal proportion of bad dreams and nightmares. This is different from my earlier study (using dreams gathered from 1996-2000), when the conservatives had many more nightmarish dreams than the liberals.” and in http://kellybulkeley.com/strange-politics-dreaming/ which was posted on the same day Nov 29th you say “What does it mean that conservative Republicans have almost three times as many nightmares as do liberal Democrats? I suppose that the former is the more recent, but this is not entirely clear..

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