Hypnotic Age Regression and Cognitive Perceptual Tasks

Gard, Betsy; Kurtz, Richard M.

doi:10.1080/00029157.1979.10403981

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“…In one study, test performance of hypnotically age-regressed subjects was significantly different from that of subjects simulating hypnosis, but it was also significantly different from that of children (Fellows & Creamer, 1978). In another recent investigation, simulators were actually more childlike than hypnotically age-regressed subjects were, although again both groups differed from actual children (Gard & Kurtz, 1979).…”

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“…Four early studies on intellectual performance reported appropriate childlike IQ performances during age-regression procedures (Gakkebush et al, 1930; Kier, 1945; Platonow, 1933; Stalnaker & Riddle, 1932), but four other studies found no evidence for this type of reinstatement (Leeds, 1949; Spiegel, Shor, & Fishman, 1945; Young, 1926, 1940). Later, better controlled studies almost uniformly obtained negative results, with hypnotically regressed subjects performing well above child IQ norms (Gard & Kurtz, 1979; Hoskovec & Horvai, 1963; Roberts, 1984; Sarbin, 1950). Kline (1950) found that 12 highly hypnotizable subjects performed age appropriately on an IQ test when they were regressed to 8, 10, and 15 years of age.…”

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What, if anything, is regressed about hypnotic age regression? A review of the empirical literature.

Nash¹

1987

Psychological Bulletin

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Section: Cognitive and Memory Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

What, if anything, is regressed about hypnotic age regression? A review of the empirical literature.

Nash¹

1987

Psychological Bulletin

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The Effects of Hypnotic Suggestion on Pain Report

Malone

Kurtz

Strube

1989

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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Forty-five highly susceptible volunteers rated a series of shocks using 32 pain descriptors. Descriptors were given numerical values using magnitude estimation procedures. We assigned the subjects to one of three conditions, analgesia suggestion, relaxation suggestion, or no suggestion. All subjects were administered the shocks and the suggestion appropriate to the group, in both the waking and hypnotic state. The results support the existence of two dimensions of pain which are differentially responsive to suggestion. Hypnotic-analgesia suggestion altered subjects' perceptions of the intensity without changing their perceptions of the unpleasantness of the shocks. Hypnotic-relaxation suggestion reduced the unpleasantness but not the perceived intensity of the stimuli. These findings imply that research into hypnotic pain relief is more easily interpreted if pain is viewed as multidimensional in nature.

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Hypnotic Age Regression and the Autokinetic Effect

1990

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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Based on research with children, we hypothesized that hypnotically age-regressed adult subjects would respond differentially across stimuli conditions on the autokinetic illusion. We assigned 18 highly susceptible subjects, assessed on the Harvard Group Susceptibility Scale, to one of three treatment groups: waking control, standard hypnotic induction, and age regression. Three target shapes, a control stimulus (circle), a representational stimulus (profile of a man), and a symbolic stimulus (cross) were presented. Results failed to show reinstatement of childlike performance on this perceptual illusion. The conceptual and empirical implications for future age-regression studies on memory, perception, and emotion are discussed.

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Hypnotic Age Regression and Cognitive Perceptual Tasks

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

What, if anything, is regressed about hypnotic age regression? A review of the empirical literature.

What, if anything, is regressed about hypnotic age regression? A review of the empirical literature.

The Effects of Hypnotic Suggestion on Pain Report

Hypnotic Age Regression and the Autokinetic Effect

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