St. Thomas Undergraduate students at the University of Saint Thomas were the participants in this study. The purpose of this study was to assess whether participants who scored higher on the MOC also scored higher on safety behaviors that were related to six common urban legends. It was hypothesized that those who score higher on the MOC scale will also score higher on the safety behaviors rating since these people would be more likely to remember the urban legends and also to enact checking behaviors related to the urban legends. Results are discussed in light of anxiety, specifically OCD, and memory bias. Previous research suggests that men tend to have more physically violent dreams than do women, among other differences.
Research also suggests that dreams reflect waking conflicts.
IN this experiment, men and women will fill out a survey asking them to describe their most recent dream, rate the dream for various emotional aspects such as anger, violence, and comfort, and to describe a recent waking conflict whose emotional aspects will also be rated. The surveys will be analyzed for gender differences in dream content, ratings of dream emotional aspects, conflict content, and conflict emotional aspects. In addition, dream content will be compared to waking emotional conflicts. Athletes may face additional risk factors for these disorders. Type and source of motivation may be an important factor regarding eating disordered behavior in female athletes.