Graeme Taylor's scientific contributions

... The present findings might also bear on the question of the efficiency with which the two hemispheres exchange information. Communication between the two hemispheres has in fact been associated with emotion regulation in previous theorizing (Henry, 1993;Kuhl, 2000;Parker & Taylor, 1997). Compatible with this notion, Compton and Mintzer (2001) demonstrated that high worriers show an ineffective interhemispheric coordination. ...

... In the general population, 8-13% of persons show alexithymic traits (4)(5)(6). Moreover, these traits are more prevalent across a wide range of somatic and psychiatric disorders (7)(8)(9)(10) and are particularly high (26-50%) among patients with depressive disorders (9,11). Depressed patients with alexithymia show more severe depressive symptoms and more overall psychopathology compared to depressed non-alexithymic patients (12). ...

... However, the factor analyses of the TAS-20 have not been consistent, with the debate focused on a three-factor structure or a two-factor structure. Some scholars believe that the distinctiveness of alexithymia, particularly its diagnosability, can be realized through its typical characteristics, which are divided into 3 factors based on clinical observations: (1) difficulty in identifying feelings (DIF), characterized by problems in identifying feelings and distinguishing feelings from bodily sensations; (2) difficulty in describing feelings (DDF), the inability to communicate feelings to others; and (3) externally oriented thinking (EOT), which refers to a cognitive style oriented towards concrete external details and events rather than inner experiences and feelings (Bagby & Taylor, 1997;Luminet et al., 2021). These three factors adhere to the original definition of alexithymia and stem from a combination of empirical and rational construction methods (Parker et al., 2003). ...

... Taylor [25] refers to alexithymia as a personality construct that is characterised by: difficulty in identifying feelings and distinguishing between feelings and bodily sensations; difficulty describing feelings to others; constricted imaginal processing with a poverty of symbolisation in fantasy and imagination; and a focus upon external events rather than internal experiences. Alexithymia is associated with increased PTSD symptomatology [26]. More alexithymic traits have been reported in CIU than in a healthy control sample [27]. ...

... EmDiff Comparisons between High Alexithymia (TAS > 60, n = 15) and Low Alexithymia (TAS < 52, n = 47-51) groups of participants (Bagby & Taylor, 1983;Ricciardi et al., 2015) were computed. There were significant differences between the High Alexithymia and Low Alexithymia groups for both Emotion Differentiation, U = 135, z = -3.79, ...

... The Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Watson et al., 1988) assessing the intensity or frequency of experience of positively and negatively valenced affects has been repeatedly administered to assess state and trait affectivity as a function of alexithymia. As expected, in a sample of university students alexithymic individuals were found to endorse more negative trait affects and less positive trait affects than non-alexithymic individuals (Parker and Taylor, 1997). In a correlational study based on a community sample (n = 137), the total score of the TAS-20 showed positive correlations of small to medium sizes with trait measures of negative affect and negative correlations of medium to large effect sizes with trait measures of positive affect (Lundh and Simonsson-Sarnecki, 2001). ...