The Relationship between Planned and Actual Responses to Hypnotic Suggestions
- 1 June 1989
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Imagination, Cognition and Personality
- Vol. 8 (4) , 283-294
- https://doi.org/10.2190/qt0k-u8fl-f1c3-5vk9
Abstract
The notion that subjects often intentionally produce their hypnotic behavior was assessed. Several hypnotic suggestions were administered to subjects, following which overt responding, experienced involuntariness, and action-planning were self-rated. Responses to suggestions occurred proportionately more often when plans to produce the overt behavior and subjective experiences of a hypnotized person were formulated than when plans to wait passively for the responses to occur on their own were made. The theoretical implications of these findings are discussed.Keywords
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