Trance logic in hypnosis and imagination.

McConkey, Kevin M.; Bryant, Richard A.; Bibb, Bernadette C.; Kihlstrom, John F.

doi:10.1037//0021-843x.100.4.464

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Patterns of hypnotic response, revisited

Kihlstrom

2015

Consciousness and Cognition

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It has long been speculated that there are discrete patterns of responsiveness to hypnotic suggestions, perhaps paralleling the factor structure of hypnotizability. An earlier study by Brenneman & Kihlstrom (1986), employing cluster analysis, found evidence for 12 such profiles. A new study by Terhune (2015), employing latent profile analysis, found evidence for three such patterns among highly hypnotizable subjects, and a fourth comprising subjects of medium hypnotizability. Some differences between the two studies are described. Convincing identification of discrete “types” of high hypnotizability, such as dissociative and nondissociative, may require a larger dataset than is currently available, but also data pertaining directly to divisions in conscious awareness and experienced involuntariness.

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Patterns of hypnotic response, revisited

Kihlstrom

2015

Consciousness and Cognition

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Hypnotic blindness and the relevance of cognitive style.

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McConkey²

1990

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Hypnosis and cognition.

Kihlstrom¹

2014

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice

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This article summarizes the contributions of hypnosis to our understanding of cognition. These contributions have been especially salient in the study of memory, and include source amnesia and the distinction between episodic and semantic memory; the occurrence of semantic priming in implicit (unconscious) memory; and paramnesia (false memory). Posthypnotic amnesia shows that explicit and implicit memory can be dissociated even under optimal encoding conditions. The hypnotic alterations of perception may expand the scope of central executive control over "low-level" sensory and perceptual processes, and offer a new perspective on perceptual couplings. Implicit (unconscious) perception in hypnosis is not subject to the same analytic limitations encountered in masked priming. In the study of "high-level" thought processes, hypnosis has played an important role in understanding the formation of delusional beliefs, and of intuitions in problem-solving. Studies of hypnosis suggest that automatic processes can be "de-automatized," as in the reversal of Stroop interference by suggestions for hypnotic agnosia. In social cognition, Orne's analysis of demand characteristics laid the foundations for the cognitive revolution in social psychology, by underscoring the status of subjects-and people outside the laboratory-as active, sentient, problem-solving agents. The search for correlates of hypnotizability led to the incorporation of openness to experience as a major cognitive dimension in the structure of personality. One topic for future research is the relationship between hypnotizability in children and their development of a theory of mind. Studies of hypnosis in children may shed new light on the development of the imagination.

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Trance logic in hypnosis and imagination.

Cited by 5 publications

References 26 publications

Patterns of hypnotic response, revisited

Patterns of hypnotic response, revisited

Hypnotic blindness and the relevance of cognitive style.

Hypnosis and cognition.

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