Hypnotic susceptibility as a function of the prestige of the hypnotist

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Abstract
40 undergraduates were administered the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A of Shor and Orne (1962) by their instructor. On the basis of the hypnotic susceptibility scores, the sample was divided into 20 “better” and 20 “poorer” Ss. A week later Ss were re-hypnotized by a tape-recording of the above induction procedure. On the second induction, half of the Ss (10 better and 10 poorer) were told that the hypnotist on the tape was an expert; the other half were told the hypnotist was a novice. The results indicated that only the better Ss given novice instructions showed a change (decrement) in hypnotic susceptibility.

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