1999•Contemporary HypnosisRequires access

Correlates of hypnotizability: the first empirical study

Irving Kirsch, Wayne Braffman

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Abstract Because all of the effects of suggestion can be obtained without inducing hypnosis, hypnotizability is not the same thing as suggestibility. Hypnotizability is the change in suggestibility produced by inducing hypnosis. However, almost all studies purporting to measure hypnotizability have neglected to control for nonhypnotic (that is, so‐called ‘waking’) suggestibility. Thus, they have assessed the relation of suggestibility to various variables, but not the relation of hypnotizability to those variables. The one published study of the correlates of hypnotizability shows that it is predicted by expectancy and motivation, but not by absorption or fantasy proneness. Copyright © 1999 British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis

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Key concepts: Suggestibility, Hypnosis, Psychology, Hypnotic susceptibility, Expectancy theory, Relation (database), Developmental psychology, Social psychology