Hypnosis as Role Enactment: The Role-Location Variable

Modification of hypnotizability: A review.

“…Other investigators have also provided support for the notion that confidence in the hypnotist evoked in the hypnotic setting facilitates responsiveness to hypnosis. Thus there is a large amount of evidence indicating that the perceived expertise and experience of the hypnotist affects responsiveness (Balaschak, Blocker, Rossiter, & Perin, 1972;Coe, Bailey, Hall, Howard, Janda, Kobayashi, & Parker, 1970;Small & Kramer, 1969;Wuraftic, 1971). Although effects due to the perceived expertise of the hypnotist tend to occur, there is no evidence that the actual experience of the hypnotist affects responsiveness (Levitt &Herschman, 1962;Levitt & Overley, 1965).…”

Effects of hypnotist susceptibility and sex on the administration of standard hypnotic susceptibility scales

“…By implication, S was likely to judge E to be a competent hypnotist. In earlier studies where competence (experience) was purposely varied, Ss responded differentially to this variable (Balaschak et al, 1972;Coe et al, 1970).…”

“…When Ss were unaware of the hypnotist's experience level, Levitt and Overley (1965) found that neophyte hypnotists obtained the same levels of hypnotic susceptibility on a standard susceptibility scale as did experienced hypnotists. However, two studies (Balaschak, Blocker, Rossiter, & Perin, 1972;Coe, Bailey, Hall, Howard, Janda, Kobayashi, & Parker, 1970) have shown that when experimental conditions are manipulated so that Ss perceive the hypnotist as experienced or inexperienced (when in fact they do not differ in experience), they score objectively higher on Walke for their participation as hypnotists.…”

“…Greenberg and Land (1971) found that manipulated "warmth" of the hypnotist was related to 23s' subjective report of being hypnotized, but not their objective scores on a standard hypnotic susceptibility scale. Balaschak et al (1972) found skin color of the hypnotist (black or white) unrelated to susceptibility, and Coe et al (1970) found that the way the hypnotist dressed was unrelated to susceptibility. High and medium susceptible Ss scored lower when the perceived "prestige" of the hypnotist was low (Small & Kramer, 19691, and Hedberg (1974) found an interaction effect with 5"s personality characteristics on nonhypnotic suggestion tasks when E s acted in predetermined ways (dominant-nondominant, extroverted-introverted).…”