INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN SUSCEPTIBILITY TO HYPNOSIS

Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Hypnosis* by Ernest

While all investigators report wide individual differences in susceptibility to hypnosis, the form of the distribution is a matter of some uncertainty. Some years ago Hull' concluded that "susceptibility to hypnotic suggestion is fairly evenly distributed over the range from no susceptibility whatever to the most profound susceptibility." In a more recent review Weitzenhoffer2has shown a summar...

Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Investment Fraud

Individual differences in susceptibility to inattentional blindness.

Inattentional blindness refers to the finding that people do not always see what appears in their gaze. Though inattentional blindness affects large percentages of people, it is unclear if there are individual differences in susceptibility. The present study addressed whether individual differences in attentional control, as reflected by variability in working memory capacity, modulate suscepti...

Confounding Factors: Individual Differences and Interactions Individual Differences in Susceptibility to Pesticides

This chapter presents and discusses some of the circumstances and conditions that may confer differing susceptibilities on different individuals and populations. Differences at the basic individual level, i.e., genetic differences, are an important source of differences in susceptibility. For example, as discussed in Chapter Four, DEET is especially toxic to individuals with genetic or acquired...

Individual differences in susceptibility to the "irrelevant speech effect".

Individual differences in objective effects of noise on performance were analyzed with respect to their distribution, temporal stability, and the precision of measurement to be attained. Seventy-two subjects had to memorize sequences of visually presented digits while being exposed to one of three auditory background conditions which were randomly mixed on a trial-by-trial basis: (1) foreign sp...