Cognitive skill training in hypnosis involves encouraging Ss to engage in empathic role enactment of each role the hypnotist describes. The influence of brief training of this kind on suggestibility was evaluated in an investigation using Ss who pretested low in hypnotic suggestibility and either positive or negative in attitude toward hypnosis. The induction led to substantial suggestibility score gains over the short term. At a follow-up testing conducted 1 year after training, suggestibi lity scores continued to exceed pretraining levels but were less than immediate posttraining levels. Attitude toward hypnosis and magnitude of suggestibility gain were unrelated. Preparation of this article was supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research grant (410-88-0331) to Donald Gorassini.We thank O. M. Wasserman and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of the article.

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