Acta Psychologica
March 1, 2024
Abbie J Irving, Niia Nikolova, Susan Robinson et al.
To our knowledge, no study has directly examined the link between hypnotic response and the personality trait of transliminality (which is underpinned, for example, by magical ideation, mystical experience, fantasy proneness, absorption, hyperaesthesia). In order to further understand the correlates of suggestibility, the aim of the current project was to investigate whether transliminality is...
Neuroscience of Consciousness
April 12, 2017
Mark P Jensen, Graham Jamieson, Antoine Lutz et al.
This article summarizes key advances in hypnosis research during the past two decades, including (i) clinical research supporting the efficacy of hypnosis for managing a number of clinical symptoms and conditions, (ii) research supporting the role of various divisions in the anterior cingulate and prefrontal cortices in hypnotic responding, and (iii) an emerging finding that high hypnotic...
Consciousness and Cognition
June 2009
Giuliana Mazzoni, Elisabetta Rotriquenz, Claudia Carvalho et al.
We administered suggestions to see a gray-scale pattern as colored and a colored pattern in shades of gray to 30 high suggestible and eight low suggestible students. The suggestions were administered twice, once following the induction of hypnosis and once without an induction. Besides rating the degree of color they saw in the stimuli differently, participants also rated their states of...
American Psychological Association eBooks
October 27, 2004
Giuliana Mazzoni, Elizabeth F. Loftus
15 citations
Presents the findings of several years of empirical research involving the use of dreams in therapy and explores the extent to which the authors could use dream material, or even dream interpretation, to influence Ss' recollections of the past. Initial studies investigated whether a gentle suggestion could get people to believe falsely that items that came from their dream reports were words...