Suggestion and suggestibility : theory and research ; [proceedings of the First International Symposium on Suggestion and Suggestibility, held at the Univ. of Giessen in the Federal Republic of Germany, July 7-11 1987

This book contains the proceedings of the First International Sym­ posium on Suggestion and Suggestibility, held at the University of Giessen in the Federal Republic of Germany, July 7-111987, upon the initiative of and organized by Dr. V. A. Gheorghiu and Dr. P. Netter. I regret that for personal reasons I was unable to accept his kind invita­ tion to attend, for Dr. Gheorghiu and I are old friends. I am pleased, however, to have this opportunity to call attention to the significance of this volume. Most of the chapters were presented in approximately their present form at the symposium, though some have been extensi­ vely revised for publication. It was a wise choice to divide the papers into four major sections. - I. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives, II. Assessment and Indivi­ dual Differences of Suggestibility, III. Psychophysiological Aspects of Suggestibility, and IV. Social and Cognitive Aspects of Suggestive Processes - each with a summarizing commentary. In view of the variety and difficulty of the individual papers, it is a help to have the integration provided by these commentaries - on Part I by Sheehan (Chap. 7), on Part II by Lundy (Chap. 13), on Part III by Edmonston (Chap. 19), and on Part IV by Fiedler (Chap. 30). Front Matter....Pages I-XIX Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Development of Research on Suggestibility: Critical Considerations....Pages 3-55 Personality, Primary and Secondary Suggestibility, and Hypnosis....Pages 57-67 Conceptual Clarification of Hypnosis and Its Relationship to Suggestibility....Pages 69-78 The Internal Confirmation of Personal Constructs: Why Suggestions Are Not Accepted....Pages 79-90 Some Suggestions About Suggestion and Hypnosis: A Radical Constructivist View....Pages 91-98 The Difficulty in Explaining Suggestion: Some Conceivable Solutions....Pages 99-112 Commentary on “Theoretical and Historical Perspectives”....Pages 113-120 Front Matter....Pages 121-121 Sensory Suggestibility: Measurement, Individual Differences, and Relation to Placebo and Drug Effects....Pages 123-133 Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Interrogative Suggestibility....Pages 135-143 The Independence of Suggestibility, Placebo Response, and Hypnotizability....Pages 145-154 Cognitive and Physiological Flexibility: Multiple Pathways to Hypnotic Responsiveness....Pages 155-167 Interpretational Sets, Hypnotic Responding, and the Modification of Hypnotizability....Pages 169-175 Measurement and Individual Differences of Suggestibility: Some Comments....Pages 177-179 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 Cortical Event-Related Evoked Potential Correlates of Hypnotic Hallucination....Pages 183-189 Hypnotic Susceptibility and Cerebral Hemisphere Preponderance: Verbal-Imaginal Discrimination Task....Pages 191-203 40-H 2 EEG and Hypnotizability During Mental Activity....Pages 205-219 Hypnotic Susceptibility, Alpha Waves and 40-H 2 EEG Rhythm, and Personality....Pages 221-239 Perceptual Styles in Chromatic Binocular Rivalry, Hypnotic Susceptibility, and Cerebral Dominance....Pages 241-248 Psychophysiological and Psychobiological Aspects of Suggestive Processes: A Commentary....Pages 249-252 Front Matter....Pages 253-253 Some Historical and Cultural Aspects of Suggestion....Pages 255-261 Front Matter....Pages 253-253 Suggestion as Social Biasing of Meaning Tests: A Heiderian Extension of the Miller, Galanter, and Pribram Paradigm — Catalyzing McGuire’s Theory of Attitude Change....Pages 263-277 Memory Modification and the Role of the Media....Pages 279-293 Response to Suggestions of Memory Distortion in Hypnosis: Sampling Cognitive and Social Factors....Pages 295-303 A Mediational Theory of Susceptibility to Social Influence....Pages 305-322 Suggestion and Credibility: Lie Detection Based on Content-Related Cues....Pages 323-335 Expectations, Confirmation Bias, and Suggestibility....Pages 337-346 Indirect Suggestion as a Research Tool....Pages 347-350 Slight Manipulations with Great Effects: On the Suggestive Impact of Vocal Parameter Change....Pages 351-359 Suggestion, Self-Attribution, and Behavior....Pages 361-369 The Manifold Facets of Social Influence: A Comment on the Social Psychological Contributions....Pages 371-374 Back Matter....Pages 375-376 This book demonstrates that the phenomenon of suggestibility relates to far more psychological processes than just to hypnosis. Several well-known scientists investigate the psychological and psychophysiological characteristics of the perceptual and response processes involved in suggestibility. They try to establish a common theoetical basis for experimental and applied research; this is the first attempt to bring the theory, methodology, and results of different approaches together into a single volume. The contributions deal with definitions, biological and social mechanisms, causes and effects, and the process of suggestion. The authors - present new techniques for assessing sensory, motor, interrogative and hypnotic suggestibility; - describe psychophysiological correlates and susceptibility to hypnosis; - discuss types of "suggestive cues" inherent in social communication and - present data on the relationship of suggestion to attribution and expectation. It is shown that suggestibility, apart from its relationship to hypnosis, is a multifactorial phenomenon comprised of different partly uncorrelated facets. This volume gives easy access to the complex matter which up to now has been scattered across single publications in specialized subdisciplines of psychology "This book contains the proceedings of the First International SymƯ posium on Suggestion and Suggestibility, held at the University of Giessen in the Federal Republic of Germany, July 7-111987, upon the initiative of and organized by Dr. V.A. Gheorghiu and Dr. P. Netter. I regret that for personal reasons I was unable to accept his kind invitaƯ tion to attend, for Dr. Gheorghiu and I are old friends. I am pleased, however, to have this opportunity to call attention to the significance of this volume. Most of the chapters were presented in approximately their present form at the symposium, though some have been extensiƯ vely revised for publication. It was a wise choice to divide the papers into four major sections. - I. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives, II. Assessment and IndiviƯ dual Differences of Suggestibility, III. Psychophysiological Aspects of Suggestibility, and IV. Social and Cognitive Aspects of Suggestive Processes - each with a summarizing commentary. In view of the variety and difficulty of the individual papers, it is a help to have the integration provided by these commentaries - on Part I by Sheehan (Chap. 7), on Part II by Lundy (Chap. 13), on Part III by Edmonston (Chap. 19), and on Part IV by Fiedler (Chap. 30)"--Font no determinada