The Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales as Related to other Measures of Hypnotic Responsiveness

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The characteristics and item contents of the several standardized Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales (SHSS:A and B, SHSS:C, SPS: I and II), and the Stanford Hypnotic Clinical Scales (SHCS: Adult and SCHS: Child) indicate their reliability and validity, as well as the wide range of hypnotic abilities that are sampled. A “tailored” SHSS:C is also presented, in which a more advanced item, designed in view of the needs of the investigator, may be substituted for an item on the SHSS:C without destroying reference to the established norms. Scales prepared by others are described according to the correlations between their scores and those on the Stanford scales. The Hypnotic Induction Profile, based on the eye-roll sign and arm levitation, is the only scale that fails to correlate substantially with the Stanford scales.

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