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DISCUSSION (NEXT STEPS (Possibilities (Could be that people report…

- - - - In previous studies, people were asked to evaluate how frequently dissociative experiences had been positive/negative/neutral.
      - It may be that people brought to mind their most salient dissociative experience and based their judgements off that, instead of evaluating what dissociation is like in general
      - People tend to remember negative events more easily than positive events
      - In this current study, people were asked to imagine what a single instance of a type of dissociation would be like in the future, and to report how likely it was to be positive/negative/neutral.
      - Therefore people are rating both experienced and non-experienced dissociation as most likely to be negative.
    - - There is a quantitative difference between the way people think about the future (prospective thinking) compared to what has happened in past
      - Results may also be due to the momentary context of the dissociative experiences we asked people to evaluate.
      - People tend to anticipate future events to be more emotionally salient than they actually turn out to be.
      - So it is possible that this discrepancy between findings is the result of people mentally projecting themselves into the future instead of the past
    - - People may be responding based on what they assume the consequences of experience to be like, instead of what the experience itself might be like at the time
      - Basing ratings based on potential outcome (Example?)
      - Limitation: especially for the more amnestic types of dissociation- where its should be impossible to rate the experience due to the loss of memory, people should theoretically be rating these experiences as neutral.
      - Instead, looking at the factors, we see that people are rating amnestic dissociation as most likely to be negative, then neutral, then positive.