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Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 13, No. 3, 379-398 (1987)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167287133007
© 1987 Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.

Attitudinal and Imaginal Ability Predictors of Social Cognitive Skill-Training Enhancements in Hypnotic Susceptibility

Nicholas P. Spanos

Carleton University

Wendi P. Cross

Carleton University

Evelyn P. Menary

Carleton University

Pamela J. Brett

Carleton University

Margaret de Groh

Carleton University

Male and female subjects with initially low hypnotic susceptibility were either administered a skill-training procedure aimed at inculcating positive attitudes and appropriate interpretational sets toward hypnotic responding or assigned to a no-treatment control condition. Skill-trained subjects obtained significantly higher posttest scores than controls on objective and subjective dimensions of susceptibility and on measures of attitudes toward hypnosis. Over half of the skill-trained subjects but only one control subject scored in the high-susceptibility range on post testing. Questionnaire measures of imagery vividness and absorption predicted posttest susceptibility in skill-trained females, whereas a combination of attitudes toward hypnosis and imagery vividness predicted posttest susceptibility in skill-trained males. Theoretical implications are discussed.


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