Emotional mis-mirroring: continually telling a child he or she is experiencing a certain emotion when really the child is actually feeling like something else. The fantasy-prone personality (FPP) -hmmm….When I researched the vampire subculture back in the ‘90s, I came across a psychological concept, the “fantasy-prone personality.An analysis of her autobiographical statements shows her to have many of the traits of a fantasy-prone personality.This disposition is an attempt, at least in part, to better describe "overactive imagination" or "living in a dream world" Google Scholar Personality correlates of fantasy proneness were studied in a sample of Spanish adolescents. Barber and Sheryl Wilson first published their important study into the central role that a percipient’s fantasy life plays in the nature, frequency and detail of the paranormal claims they make. Hide quoted text - > - Show quoted text - >Well. Fantasy proneness is a personality characteristic that is measured on a continuous scale. Barber are credited with identifying Fantasy Prone Personality by testing for fourteen traits. Their work developed a theme put forth by Josephine R. The term is Fantasy Prone Personality not Trapped in Fantasy Personality.Signs of FPP include delusions and hallucinations (such as having intense spiritual/paranormal experiences, experiencing imagined sensations as real and confusing daydreams with real memories) as well as This disposition is an attempt, at least in part, to better describe the popular term “over-active imagination”, or “living in a dream world”. Hilgard,, a pioneer in the study of hypnosis. ***'Fantasy-prone personality' (FPP) is an expression coined by psychologists Cheryl Wilson and Theodore Barber in a 1983 paper based on a small study on hypnotic susceptibility.Fantasy prone personality (FPP) is a disposition or personality trait in which a person experiences a lifelong extensive and deep involvement in fantasy.” I learned about people in experiments who could imagine Answer (1 of 3): Well, it’s pretty fun but sometimes not. Fantasy prone personality The present study evaluated the so-called fantasy prone personality by selecting subjects who ranged along the continuum of fantasy proneness and then administering measures designed to assess hypnotic susceptibility (Harvard Group Scale, HGSHS:A Shor & Orne, 1962), absorption (Tellegen Absorpt ….