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Cognitive and Physiological Flexibility: Multiple Pathways to Hypnotic Responsiveness

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Suggestion and Suggestibility

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The newly expanding field of cognitive psychophysiology will find the field of hypnosis research to be a rich gold mine for the investigation of interactions between cognitive and physiological functioning in alternate states of awareness, as moderated by individual differences in an important and enduring trait, namely hypnotic responsiveness. Up until recently, most hypnosis researchers examined separately the personality and cognitive correlates of hypnotic responsiveness, changes in cognitive processing during hypnosis, and possible physiological correlates of hypnosis. This paper will present a series of studies in which we have investigated, separately and together, possible individual differences in both cognitive and physiological flexibility. Based upon prior research, it is our belief that individuals who are highly responsive to hypnosis show greater cognitive flexibility and possibly greater physiological flexibility.

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  1. Fachbereich Psychologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Otto-Behaghel-Straße 10, D-6300, Gießen, Germany

    Vladimir A. Gheorghiu  & Petra Netter  & 

  2. Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, Denmark Hill, London, S.E.5, Great Britain

    Hans J. Eysenck

  3. Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Robert Rosenthal (Professor of Social Psychology) (Professor of Social Psychology)

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Crawford, H.J. (1989). Cognitive and Physiological Flexibility: Multiple Pathways to Hypnotic Responsiveness. In: Gheorghiu, V.A., Netter, P., Eysenck, H.J., Rosenthal, R. (eds) Suggestion and Suggestibility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73875-3_11

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