Moderation of Mood Change after Subliminal Symbiotic Stimulation: Four Experiments Contributing to the further Demystification of Silverman's “Mommy and I Are One” Findings

Sohlberg, Staffan; Billinghurst, Alexandra; Nylén, Sara

doi:10.1006/jrpe.1997.2199

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Section: People Vary In Their Response To "Mommy and I Are One"supporting

confidence: 70%

“…Following the lead of Weinberger (1992; Weinberger, Kelner & McClelland, 1997), we found support for the hypothesis that MOMMY stimulation affects implicit mood (Sohlberg, Arvidsson & Birgegard, 1997; Sohlberg, Billinghurst & Nylén, 1998; Sohlberg, Samuelberg, Sidén & Thörn, 1998). Because mood in turn affects numerous aspects of cognition and behavior (Siegel & Weinberger, 1998), this finding helps explain the wide range of MOMMY effects reported in the literature (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionsupporting

confidence: 71%

“…For the “action focus” used in the present study (“Focus 1” in SASB terminology) these are labeled: QI, encourage friendly autonomy; QII, invoke hostile autonomy; QIII, hostile power; and QIV, friendly influence. QI, QII, and QIII moderated MOMMY effects in our previous study, QI significantly so (Sohlberg, Billinghurst et al , 1998). While in our previous study the direction of effects of the last quadrant (QIV) was also logically consistent with the hypothesized moderating influence of positivity in memories of mother, the effects were very small in absolute terms.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 57%

“…In the Sohlberg, Billinghurst et al (1998) study (Experiment 3), participants’ memories of interaction with their mother in childhood predicted response to MOMMY. Collected using the self‐report Structural Analysis of Social Behavior (SASB) (Benjamin, 1974; Benjamin, 1996a,b; Florsheim, Henry & Benjamin, 1996; Pincus, Gurtman & Ruiz, 1998), these data helped explain MOMMY effects using a very simple, straightforward variable: the emotional tone in memories of interaction with mother.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Memories of mother, complementarity and shame: Predicting response to subliminal stimulation with “Mommy and I are one”

Sohlberg

Claesson

Birgegård

2003

Scandinavian J Psychology

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A poorly understood finding with potentially wide-ranging implications is that subliminal stimulation with "Mommy and I are one" affects behavior. In this study (n= 62), "Mommy and I are one" lowered implicit mood (p= 0.0015) in comparison with a neutral stimulus ("People are walking"). The effect was most pronounced in shame-prone participants with less positive memories of their mother, and low self-mother complementarity (interaction p= 0.0044). Effects of a potentially shame-inducing stimulus ("I am completely isolated") were not significant (ps > 0.11). The results concerning less positive memories of mother replicate previous findings. We suggest that activation of unconscious associative networks explains the data. Though more research is needed, the cognitive content of these networks may involve representations of self-with-mother; for some, the affective content could involve shame.

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Section: People Vary In Their Response To "Mommy and I Are One"supporting

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Section: Introductionsupporting

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Memories of mother, complementarity and shame: Predicting response to subliminal stimulation with “Mommy and I are one”

Sohlberg

Claesson

Birgegård

2003

Scandinavian J Psychology

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“…A 10 min rating procedure, the AMT is a further development of a measure originally created by Weinberger, Kelner, and McClelland (1997) and used extensively in our previous studies (e.g., Sohlberg, Billinghurst, & Nylén, 1998;. Participants are first allowed 4 min 30 s to write brief notes regarding autobiographical memories.…”

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Sociotropy, Autonomy, and Depressive Response to an Unconscious Challenge

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Important, but not unequivocal, support has been found for Sociotropy and Autonomy as vulnerability factors for depression. Using a novel approach we gave subliminal sociotropy-related and autonomy-related visuoverbal stimulation to nondepressed students (Study 1, N = 36), and patients treated for clinical depression (Study 2, N = 34) in completely balanced within-groups designs. Autonomy, as measured with the Personal Style Inventory, was unrelated to response. Sociotropy predicted negative outcome after a sociotropy-related abandonment stimulus in both Study 1 (r = − .34 to a decrease in positively valenced autobiographical memories) and Study 2 (r = .38 to an increase in selection of depression-related words on a word-selection task). This finding may interest developers of depression therapies, and support further attempts to study Sociotropy as a putative vulnerability factor for depression.

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Symbiotic Oneness and Defensive Autonomy: Yet Another Experiment Demystifying Silverman's Findings Using “Mommy and I Are One”

Sohlberg

Birgegård

Czartoryski

et al. 2000

Journal of Research in Personality

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Moderation of Mood Change after Subliminal Symbiotic Stimulation: Four Experiments Contributing to the further Demystification of Silverman's “Mommy and I Are One” Findings

Cited by 17 publications

References 47 publications

Memories of mother, complementarity and shame: Predicting response to subliminal stimulation with “Mommy and I are one”

Memories of mother, complementarity and shame: Predicting response to subliminal stimulation with “Mommy and I are one”

Sociotropy, Autonomy, and Depressive Response to an Unconscious Challenge

Symbiotic Oneness and Defensive Autonomy: Yet Another Experiment Demystifying Silverman's Findings Using “Mommy and I Are One”

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