Hypnotic recall of material learned under anxiety- and non-anxiety-producing conditions.

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Thirteen undergraduates, ranging in susceptibility to hypnosis from medium to deep on the Davis-Husband scale, served as subjects in a series of 7 experiments designed to compare the recall of emotion-provocative material in meaningful and nonsense contexts; to compare nonsense material recall with meaningful recall; and to compare successful and failed items in waking recall, noting whether the recall of the last two items can be improved under hypnosis. Results indicate no hypermnesia (hypnotic or waking) for nonsense syllables as reported by previous investigators, nor for meaningful words in nonsense syllable lists. Disparaged or failed items did show a hypnotic hypermnesia, but successful items showed no hypermnesia either under hypnosis or in the waking state. Recall of poetry learned in the waking state showed hypermnesia but not for the waking recall of the same material. "Poetry learned under success-failure conditions showed no hypermnesia in either state for either 'successful' or 'failing' poems." Neither profane nor innocuous words showed recall differences in either condition; however, failed tasks did show a hypnotic hypermnesia. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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