Suggestion and Suggestibility

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIX

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2. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. The Development of Research on Suggestibility: Critical Considerations

      • V. A. Gheorghiu

      Pages 3-55

   3. Personality, Primary and Secondary Suggestibility, and Hypnosis

      • H. J. Eysenck

      Pages 57-67

   4. Conceptual Clarification of Hypnosis and Its Relationship to Suggestibility

      • W. E. Edmonston

      Pages 69-78

   5. The Internal Confirmation of Personal Constructs: Why Suggestions Are Not Accepted

      • R. M. Lundy

      Pages 79-90

   6. Some Suggestions About Suggestion and Hypnosis: A Radical Constructivist View

      • P. Kruse

      Pages 91-98

   7. The Difficulty in Explaining Suggestion: Some Conceivable Solutions

      • V. A. Gheorghiu

      Pages 99-112

   8. Commentary on “Theoretical and Historical Perspectives”

      • P. W. Sheehan

      Pages 113-120

3. Suggestibility: Assessment and Individual Differences

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Sensory Suggestibility: Measurement, Individual Differences, and Relation to Placebo and Drug Effects

      • P. Netter

      Pages 123-133

   3. Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Interrogative Suggestibility

      • G. H. Gudjonsson

      Pages 135-143

   4. The Independence of Suggestibility, Placebo Response, and Hypnotizability

      • F. J. Evans

      Pages 145-154

   5. Cognitive and Physiological Flexibility: Multiple Pathways to Hypnotic Responsiveness

      • H. J. Crawford

      Pages 155-167

   6. Interpretational Sets, Hypnotic Responding, and the Modification of Hypnotizability

      • N. P. Spanos

      Pages 169-175

   7. Measurement and Individual Differences of Suggestibility: Some Comments

      • R. M. Lundy

      Pages 177-179

4. Psychophysiological Aspects of Suggestibility

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 181-181

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   2. Cortical Event-Related Evoked Potential Correlates of Hypnotic Hallucination

      • D. Spiegel

      Pages 183-189

   3. Hypnotic Susceptibility and Cerebral Hemisphere Preponderance: Verbal-Imaginal Discrimination Task

      • I. Mészáros, H. J. Crawford, C. Szabó, A. Nagy-Kovács, Z. Révész

      Pages 191-203

   4. 40-H2 EEG and Hypnotizability During Mental Activity

      • F. S. Marucci, V. De Pascalis, M. P. Penna, E. Pessa

      Pages 205-219

This book contains the proceedings of the First International Sym­ posium on Suggestion and Suggestibility, held at the University of Giessen in the Federal Republic of Germany, July 7-111987, upon the initiative of and organized by Dr. V. A. Gheorghiu and Dr. P. Netter. I regret that for personal reasons I was unable to accept his kind invita­ tion to attend, for Dr. Gheorghiu and I are old friends. I am pleased, however, to have this opportunity to call attention to the significance of this volume. Most of the chapters were presented in approximately their present form at the symposium, though some have been extensi­ vely revised for publication. It was a wise choice to divide the papers into four major sections. - I. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives, II. Assessment and Indivi­ dual Differences of Suggestibility, III. Psychophysiological Aspects of Suggestibility, and IV. Social and Cognitive Aspects of Suggestive Processes - each with a summarizing commentary. In view of the variety and difficulty of the individual papers, it is a help to have the integration provided by these commentaries - on Part I by Sheehan (Chap. 7), on Part II by Lundy (Chap. 13), on Part III by Edmonston (Chap. 19), and on Part IV by Fiedler (Chap. 30).

• Beeinflußbarkeit
• EEG
• Hypnose
• Suggestibilität
• Suggestion
• Wahrnehmung und Gedächtnis
• assessment
• attribution
• behavior
• communication
• electroencephalography (EEG)
• memory
• perception
• personality
• psychology

• Fachbereich Psychologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Gießen, Germany

  Vladimir A. Gheorghiu, Petra Netter

• Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, Great Britain

  Hans J. Eysenck

• Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

  Robert Rosenthal

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