Behavioral and Subjective Scoring of the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility: Further Data and an Extension

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 191-199

  Kumar, V K ^a   Marcano, G ^a   Pekala, Ronald J ^b  

^a WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COLLEGE STUDENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPNOSIS; HYPNOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUGGESTION;

EID: 0029883446     PISSN: 00029157     EISSN: 21600562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00029157.1996.10403337     Document Type: Article

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