Sustained attentional and disattentional abilities and arousability: Factor analysis and relationships to hypnotic susceptibility

Lyons, Larry C.; Crawford, Helen J.

doi:10.1016/s0191-8869(97)00135-9

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“…Closely related to this (e.g. Crawford, Brown and Moon 1993a;Crawford, 1994;Crawford, Corby and Kopell, 1996;Lyons and Crawford, 1997) is the finding that the capacity to sustain attention in a complex environment without being distracted by competing stimuli correlates with high hypnotizability. Another concept that has been reported to correlate with high hypnotizability is the vividness of images and imagery measured with different standardized imagery tests (e.g.…”

Section: Correlates Of Hypnotizabilitymentioning

confidence: 95%

Hypnotic phenomena and altered states of consciousness: a multilevel framework of description and explanation

Kallio

Revonsuo

2003

Contemporary Hypnosis

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There is currently agreement that, in addition to the changes in external behaviour, suggestions presented in a hypnotic context may give rise to changes in subjective experience. Ye t, there is no general agreement about the theoretical framework within which these changes in experience should be explained. Though different theories about hypnosis overlap in many respects, there is still disagreement on whether reference to a specific internal state of the individual is necessary in order to explain these changes. We place the explanatory task in the context of a multilevel framework of explanation, which reveals that the disagreement between the 'state' and 'nonstate' view is about the level of description at which the phenomenon 'hypnosis' should be conceptualized. We propose a novel approach using the multilevel explanation which helps to formulate empirically testable hypotheses about the nature of hypnosis. We will outline the basic elements of such an approach and hope that our proposition will help hypnosis research to integrate with the multidisciplinary research on other phenomena of consciousness.

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Section: Correlates Of Hypnotizabilitymentioning

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Hypnotic phenomena and altered states of consciousness: a multilevel framework of description and explanation

Kallio

Revonsuo

2003

Contemporary Hypnosis

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“…Related to absorption, but without the altered state of consciousness component as is found in the TAS, the DAPI's subscale of extremely focused attention (Crawford, Brown, et al, 1993;Lyons & Crawford, 1997) or total score (Kallio, Revonsuo, Hämäläinen, Markela, & Gruzelier, 2001) correlates with hypnotizability. In the present study, we wished to determine if these scales added significantly to the prediction of hypnotizability, above and beyond persistence and COMT, in our hierarchical multiple regressions for both the total sample and for women and men separately.…”

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Hypnotic Susceptibility: Multidimensional Relationships With Cloninger?s Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, COMT Polymorphisms, Absorption, and Attentional Characteristics

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Bachner‐Melman²,

Ebstein³

et al. 2004

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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One hundred and seven healthy volunteers were administered Cloninger's Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire (TPQ), the Differential Attentional Processes Inventory (DAPI), the Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS), and the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C (SHSS:C). Polymorphisms of catechol O-methyltransferase (COMT), an enzyme involved in dopamine metabolism, were assessed. Highly hypnotizable subjects self-reported greater TPQ persistence, absorption, and focused attentional abilities. Hierarchical multiple regression analyses found that TPQ persistence, COMT, TAS, and the DAPI attentional scales explained 43.8% of the variance in women and 29% in men. Membership was correctly discriminated for the more extreme low (62.1%) and highly (81.5%) hypnotizable groups. These results suggest that highly hypnotizable persons have a more effective frontolimbic attentional system and further suggest the involvement of dopaminergic systems in hypnotizability.

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“…Indeed, one of the most frequently replicated correlates of hypnotic suggestibility is self-reported absorption in imaginative activities (e.g. Barnier & McConkey, 1999;Lyons & Crawford, 1997;Tellegen & Atkinson, 1974;Wilson & Barber, 1981;contrast Jamieson & Sheehan, 2002). Even so, when methodological artefacts are controlled, absorption only accounts for about 1% of the variance in hypnotic responding (Kirsch & Council, 1992).…”

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Hypnotic suggestibility, cognitive inhibition, and dissociation

Dienes

Brown

Hutton

et al. 2009

Consciousness and Cognition

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Sustained attentional and disattentional abilities and arousability: Factor analysis and relationships to hypnotic susceptibility

Cited by 21 publications

References 77 publications

Hypnotic phenomena and altered states of consciousness: a multilevel framework of description and explanation

Hypnotic phenomena and altered states of consciousness: a multilevel framework of description and explanation

Hypnotic Susceptibility: Multidimensional Relationships With Cloninger?s Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, COMT Polymorphisms, Absorption, and Attentional Characteristics

Hypnotic suggestibility, cognitive inhibition, and dissociation

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