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Looking at the history of psychology, one may notice a definite parallel in the currents and countercurrents of scientific interest devoted, on the one hand, to the phenomena of emotion, and on the other, to those of suggestion. Both interests reached a climax at the beginning of the discipline; and both fell into disrepute because they were considered speculative and not amenable to methodologically sound and truly objective, operationally oriented scientific research. The name and fate, the rise and fall, of McDougall (1910, 1923) highlights that mainstream development of the discipline. Presently, however, emotion is having a strong comeback as a research topic in the field, with more and more journals and editorial boards being responsive to papers in this area. The present volume, which would have been unthinkable not so long ago, might testify that suggestion, too, is returning to the scientific scene. That coincidence is no happenstance: the early notion of suggestion had a strong connotative, if not denotative semantic link to the notion of emotional contagion (Gefühlsansteckung). As will be shown below, both phenomenologically and according to present theorizing, there is a decisively emotional component involved in the process of suggestion that can be seen on close analysis.
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Schwanenberg, E. (1989). Suggestion as Social Biasing of Meaning Tests: A Heiderian Extension of the Miller, Galanter, and Pribram Paradigm — Catalyzing McGuire’s Theory of Attitude Change. 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_21
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