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Hypnotic Responding: Automatic Dissociation or Situation-Relevant Cognizing?

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Social behavior is strategic. People continually moderate their interpersonal behavior in conformance with the changing cues and expectations generated by the situations in which they find themselves. Such behavior involves planning, attention to social contingencies, and coordinated decision-making. In short, social behavior involves the kinds of processes that, in everyday life, we think of as being voluntary (cf. Goffman, 1959).

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Spanos, N.P. (1981). Hypnotic Responding: Automatic Dissociation or Situation-Relevant Cognizing?. In: Klinger, E. (eds) Concepts, Results, and Applications. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3974-8_9

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