Toward a convergence in hypnosis research.

Spaños, Nicholas P.; Barber, Theodore Xenophon

doi:10.1037/h0036795

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“…There has been some research about the relationship between attitudes and expectancies and responsiveness to hypnotic test suggestions (De Groh, 1989). Several studies have found that the suggestibility level is influenced by attitudes (Barber and Calverley, 1964;Spanos and Barber, 1974;Sheehan and Perry, 1977), however, there does not seem to be a consensus about the extent of this influence. Differences in theoretical perspective seem to play an important role in shaping investigators' positions on the issue (De Groh, 1989).…”

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Effects of different types of preparatory information on attitudes toward hypnosis

Capafons

Cabañas

Alarcón

et al. 2005

Contemporary Hypnosis

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This paper examines how attitudes of initially reluctant subjects towards hypnosis are influenced by three different approaches to introducing the topic. Participants (N = 90) were assigned to one of three experimental conditions: minimal information, cognitivebehavioural information and trance information. All three groups showed positive changes in attitudes toward hypnosis. Contrary to our expectations, positive attitudinal changes were not diminished for subjects exposed to trance information. Groups given trance and cognitive-behavioural explanations demonstrated significantly greater collaboration compared to the control group. No differences in hypnotic suggestibility were obtained.

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Effects of different types of preparatory information on attitudes toward hypnosis

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Cabañas

Alarcón

et al. 2005

Contemporary Hypnosis

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“…Moreover, in some studies it has been found that attitudes have an infl uence on absorption (i.e. involvement in imaginary activities of everyday life) and hypnotic suggestibility (Barber and Calverley, 1964;Spanos and Barber, 1974;Spanos and McPeake, 1975;Sheehan and Perry, 1977).…”

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Attitudes and beliefs about hypnosis: A multicultural study

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Mendoza

Espejo

et al. 2008

Contemporary Hypnosis

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The aim of this study is to examine the effects of having personal experience and information about hypnosis over the beliefs and attitudes toward hypnosis, using a sample of students from Spain, United States, Portugal and Romania. The factor structure of the Revised Valencia Scale of Attitudes and Beliefs toward Hypnosis-Client Version, as well as its psychometric properties are also analyzed. An exploratory factor analysis of the scale was conducted and an 8-factor model solution similar to the one found in other versions of this scale was obtained: Help, Personal Control, Magical Solution, Interest, Collaboration, Fear, Memory/Trance and Marginal. Results also indicated that participants who had previously experienced hypnosis and/or based their knowledge of hypnosis on scientifi c sources scored, in general, higher in factors indicating positive attitudes and correct beliefs about hypnosis.

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“…Spanos and Barber (1974) indicated that hypnotized people have "a tendency to carry out and also to elaborate imaginings consistent with the suggestions ... [and] to simultaneously ignore or reinterpret information that contradicts the imaginings" (p. 503). Because hypnosis allows the creation of transient delusions that can be controlled and manipulated in healthy individuals (Kihlstrom & Hoyt, 1988;McConkey, 1991; see also Zimbardo, Andersen, & Kabat, 1981), it is a potentially valuable way of investigating delusions.…”

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Hypnotic sex change: Creating and challenging a delusion in the laboratory.

Noble¹,

McConkey²

1995

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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The authors suggested a change of sex to virtuoso, high-hypnotizable, and low-hypnotizable simulating participants in an application of the real-simulating paradigm of hypnosis. The experiences of sex change that participants reported during hypnosis were challenged through procedures of contradiction and confrontation. Behavioral and self-report data indicated that virtuosos experienced a transient delusion about their sex that was compelling and resistant to challenge. Implications are discussed for investigations of delusion through the use of hypnosis in the laboratory and for understanding delusion in the clinical setting.

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Toward a convergence in hypnosis research.

Cited by 190 publications

References 66 publications

Effects of different types of preparatory information on attitudes toward hypnosis

Effects of different types of preparatory information on attitudes toward hypnosis

Attitudes and beliefs about hypnosis: A multicultural study

Hypnotic sex change: Creating and challenging a delusion in the laboratory.

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