Does the more vivid imagery of high hypnotizables depend on greater cognitive effort? A test of dissociation and social-cognitive theories of hypnosis

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 372-391

  Sadler, Pamela ^a   Woody, Erik Z ^b  

^a WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DISSOCIATION; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; IMAGERY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL ASPECT;

ADULT; COGNITION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EXERTION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TELEMETRY;

EID: 33748470488     PISSN: 00207144     EISSN: 17445183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207140600856715     Document Type: Article

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