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Hypnotic suggestibility, cognitive inhibition, and dissociation
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posted on 2023-06-07, 18:42 authored by Zoltan DienesZoltan Dienes, Elizabeth Brown, Sam Hutton, Irving Kirsch, Giuliana Mazzoni, Daniel B WrightWe examined two potential correlates of hypnotic suggestibility: dissociation and cognitive inhibition. Dissociation is the foundation of two of the major theories of hypnosis and other theories commonly postulate that hypnotic responding is a result of attentional abilities (including inhibition). Participants were administered the Waterloo-Stanford Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form C. Under the guise of an unrelated study, 180 of these participants also completed: a version of the Dissociative Experiences Scale that is normally distributed in non-clinical populations; a latent inhibition task, a spatial negative priming task, and a memory task designed to measure negative priming. The data ruled out even moderate correlations between hypnotic suggestibility and all the measures of dissociation and cognitive inhibition overall, though they also indicated gender differences. The results are a challenge for existing theories of hypnosis. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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Consciousness and CognitionISSN
1053-8100Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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4Volume
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837-847Pages
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- Psychology Publications
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