The fantasy-prone person: Hypnosis, imagination, and creativity.

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Evaluated the fantasy-prone (FP) personality by selecting Ss who ranged along the continuum of fantasy proneness and administering measures designed to assess hypnotic susceptibility, absorption, vividness of mental imagery, responses to waking suggestion, creativity, and social desirablity. 62 undergraduates, based on their scores on an inventory of childhood memories and imaginings, were divided into 3 groups: 23 FP, 22 medium-FP, and 17 non-FP Ss. Ss completed the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility—Form A, an absorption scale, the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, an art scale, a vividness of imagery scale, and a creative imagination scale. Results show strong support for J. R. Hilgard's (1970, 1979) construct of imaginative involvement and S. C. Wilson and T. X. Barber's (1983) contention that FP persons can be distinguished from others in terms of fantasy and related cognitive processes. FP Ss outscored Ss in both comparison groups on all of the measures of fantasy, imagination, and creativity, with social desirability used as a covariate. Low-FP Ss were no less creative or less responsive to hypnosis than their medium-FP counterparts. (47 ref) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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