Studies And Research

Credit for many of these goes out to /r/tulpas. Although I added a few more in that I discovered for myself, and others sent into me by followers. If you’re aware of papers related to endogenic plurality, be sure to send them my way!

Research Into Tulpamancy and Endogenic Plurality

Studies Relating To The Agency of Fictional Characters:

THE ILLUSION OF INDEPENDENT AGENCY: DO ADULT FICTION WRITERS EXPERIENCE THEIR CHARACTERS AS HAVING MINDS OF THEIR OWN?

‘I’ve learned I need to treat my characters like people’: Varieties of agency and interaction in Writers’ experiences of their Characters’ Voices

Studies Relating To The Autonomy of Imaginary Friends:

Investigating Valence and Autonomy in Children’s Relationships with Imaginary Companions $Paywall$

Imaginary Companions, Inner Speech, and Auditory Verbal Hallucinations: What Are the Relations?

NPR’s Hidden Brain podcast episode on Imaginary Friends:

Secret Friends: Tapping Into The Power Of Imagination

Studies Into The Tulpa Community:

Varieties of Tulpa Experiences: The Hypnotic Nature of Human Sociality, Personhood, and Interphenomenality.

Tulpas and Mental Health: A Study of Non-Traumagenic Plural Experiences

Personality Characteristics of Tulpamancers and Their Tulpas

Study Relating To Other Non-Disordered Systems:

Multiplicity: An Explorative Interview Study on Personal Experiences of People with Multiple Selves

Transcript of a Report on Tulpamancy, Including Opinions of Psychologists:

Imaginary Friends: Helpful or Harmful?

Study Into Creations of Personal Gods, and Link to Non-Pathological Dissociation:

The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity

Other

Research Into The Origin of the Word “Tulpa”:

Tracking the Tulpa: Exploring the “Tibetan” Origins of a Contemporary Paranormal Idea

Maladaptive Daydreaming As A Dissociative Disorder (For potential implications on paragenic systems):

COMMENTARY On Dissociative Identity Disorder and Maladaptive Daydreaming

Research Into Agents In Psychosis And Implications On Cognition And Theory of Mind:

The Representation of Agents in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations

Rethinking Social Cognition in Light of Psychosis: Reciprocal Implications for Cognition and Psychopathology

Simulation Theory of Empathy (A possible explanation for introjects, fictive and factives)

Simulation Theory

Non-Pathological Dissociation:

Research on Non-Pathological Dissociation

Note: I would never be caught encouraging anyone to do anything unethical. Therefore, I am not going to advise anyone access paywalled research using Sci-Hub. For those who don’t know, Sci-Hub is a website that seeks to make all scientific research free and available to everyone, hosting upwards of 84,000,000 academic documents. Again, I cannot advise you to copy the url or DOI codes of paywalled research and paste it into Sci-Hub’s website in order to access that research for free.