Imaginative suggestibility and hypnotizability

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 57-61

  Kirsch, Irving ^a   Braffman, Wayne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypnosis; Hypnotizability; Suggestibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035533988     PISSN: 09637214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8721.00115     Document Type: Article

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