Responding to hypnotic and nonhypnotic suggestions: Performance standards, imaginative suggestibility, and response expectancies

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 327-349

  Meyer, Eric C ^a,b,c   Lynn, Steven Jay ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Information Technology   (United States)

^c Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System (151C)   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPNOSIS; HYPNOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; IMAGINATION; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; REVIEW; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTIVATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SUGGESTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958125173     PISSN: 00207144     EISSN: 17445183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207144.2011.570660     Document Type: Review

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