Hypnotic suggestibility and absorption: Revisiting the context effect

Contemporary Hypnosis

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 32-41

  Milling, Leonard S ^a   Kirsch, Irving ^b   Burgess, Cheryl ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Absorption; Context effect; Hypnosis; Hypnotic suggestibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005995482     PISSN: 09605290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ch.190     Document Type: Article

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