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Article: Hypnosis through the years. (susceptibility found to remain constant)
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- Science News
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- March 4, 1989
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Hypnosis through the years
A person's susceptibility to hypnosis, as measured by a brief test, remain relatively consistent over as many as 25 years, according to a study reported in the February JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY. In the test, an experimenter attempts to hypnotize a subject and then makes a number of suggestions, such as telling the subject his arm is "as stiff as an iron bar" and asking him to try to bend it. The stability of scores on this test make it an important tool in studying clinical uses of hypnosis, such as pain relief, say Stanford University psychologist Carlo Piccione, Ernest R. Hilgard and Philip G. Zimbardo.
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