Direct versus indirect suggestions, archaic involvement, and hypnotic experience.

Lynn, Steven Jay; Weekes, John R.; Matyi, Cindy L.; Neufeld, Victor

doi:10.1037/0021-843x.97.3.296

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“…A secondary interest of the current study was to assess the extent to which the length of the delay between the first and second screening affects the outcome of the screen and the psychometric properties of the measurement tool. Repeated assessment of suggestibility can negatively affect the suggestibility scores, for instance, if the delay amid the two occasions takes only a few days or weeks (Barber & Calverley, 1966;Fassler et al, 2008;Lynn et al, 1988). This reduction in suggestibility may be caused by boredom; the participants can become disengaged with the procedure by virtue of finding it repetitive (Barber & Calverley, 1966;Fassler et al, 2008).…”

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“…The question about the stability of hypnotic suggestibility over periods of few days or even decades have inspired various research projects (e.g. Fassler, Lynn, & Knox, 2008;Lynn, Weekes, Matyi, & Neufeld, 1988;Piccione, Hilgard, & Zimbardo, 1989). To assess the stability of hypnotic suggestibility, we recruited half of the sample from the subject pool of the year of 2016 and the other half from the year of 2017, both of whom have already received offline screening.…”

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Can hypnotic suggestibility be measured online?

Pálfi

Moga

Lush

et al. 2019

Psychological Research

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Hypnosis and hypnotic suggestions are gradually gaining popularity within the consciousness community as established tools for the experimental manipulation of illusions of involuntariness, hallucinations and delusions. However, hypnosis is still far from being a widespread instrument; a crucial hindrance to taking it up is the amount of time needed to invest in identifying people high and low in responsiveness to suggestion. In this study, we introduced an online assessment of hypnotic response and estimated the extent to which the scores and psychometric properties of an online screening differ from an offline one. We propose that the online screening of hypnotic response is viable as it reduces the level of responsiveness only by a slight extent. The application of online screening may prompt researchers to run large-scale studies with more heterogeneous samples, which would help researchers to overcome some of the issues underlying the current replication crisis in psychology.

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Can hypnotic suggestibility be measured online?

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Moga

Lush

et al. 2019

Psychological Research

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“…style, provide the subject with a range of appropriate responses, and convey the implication that the subject is central to hypnotic events. Three recent studies found that despite responding equivalently in terms of overt response, subjects who received permissive suggestions rated their responses as feeling more voluntary than did subjects who received authoritatively worded suggestions (Lynn, Neufeld, & Matyi, 1987;Lynn, Weekes, Matyi, & Neufeld, 1988).…”

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Hypnotic involuntariness: A social cognitive analysis.

Lynn¹,

Rhue²,

Weekes³

1990

Psychological Review

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The experience of involuntariness is a hallmark of hypnosis. A framework for understanding involuntary experiences that draws from social psychological and cognitive perspectives on hypnotic responding is presented. There are at least 5 reasons to reject the hypothesis that hypnotic responding is automatic and involuntary: (a) Hypnotic responses have all of the properties of behavior that is typically defined as voluntary. That is, they are purposeful, directed toward goals, regulated in terms of subjects' intentions, and can be progressively changed to better achieve subjects' goals, (b) Hypnotizable subjects can resist suggestions when resistance is denned as consistent with the role of a good hypnotized subject, (c) Hypnotic behaviors are neither reflexes nor manifestations of innate stimulus-response connections, (d) Hypnotic performances consume attentional resources in a manner comparable with nonhypnotic performances, (e) Hypnotic subjects' cognitive activities clearly demonstrate their active attempts to fulfill the requirements of hypnotic suggestions, which include experiencing suggestion-related effects as involuntary.

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“…Firstly, in the field of social psychology, suggestibility is still viewed as a group phenomenon that can be manipulated (Gheorghiu, 1988). Secondly, hypnotized subjects' rapport with their hypnotist may be more intense in a group than an individual setting (Lynn, Weekes, Matyi, & Neufeld, 1988). Register and Kihlstrom (1986) found that only 36% of subjects defined as highly hypnotizable using the Harvard Group Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale (HGHSS:A; Shor & Orne, 1962) were so defined using the individually administered Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale (SHSS; Weitzenhoffer & Hilgard, 1962).…”

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Freud's Relevance to Hypnosis: A Reevaluation

Bachner‐Melman¹,

Lichtenberg²

2001

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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In this paper we examine Freud's life and thinking, based on his collected works, and reevaluate some of his ideas in the light of various aspects of contemporary hypnosis research. Although Freud has often been blamed for simplistic thinking about hypnosis and for its eclipse during the opening decades of this century, his writings reveal a rich theory of hypnosis and a frank acknowledgement of the debt psychoanalytic theory and practice owe to it. Even though he abandoned hypnosis as a clinical tool, Freud maintained a theoretical interest in the subject and in many respects anticipated issues in current research. Whereas his emphasis on the hypnotist's skill may have been exaggerated, his insights concerning attention, social expectations, group dynamics, reality testing, and the relationship between hypnosis and sleep have been borne out by empirical investigations.

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Direct versus indirect suggestions, archaic involvement, and hypnotic experience.

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Can hypnotic suggestibility be measured online?

Can hypnotic suggestibility be measured online?

Hypnotic involuntariness: A social cognitive analysis.

Freud's Relevance to Hypnosis: A Reevaluation

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