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Types of suggestibility: Relationships among compliance, indirect, and direct suggestibility.

Polczyk R, Pasek T

Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. polczyk@apple.phils.uj.edu.pl

It is commonly believed that direct suggestibility, referring to overt influence, and indirect suggestibility, in which the intention to influence is hidden, correlate poorly. This study demonstrates that they are substantially related, provided that they tap similar areas of influence. Test results from 103 students, 55 women and 48 men, were entered into regression analyses. Indirect suggestibility, as measured by the Sensory Suggestibility Scale for Groups, and compliance, measured by the Gudjonsson Compliance Scale, were predictors of direct suggestibility, assessed with the Barber Suggestibility Scale. Spectral analyses showed that indirect suggestibility is more related to difficult tasks on the BSS, but compliance is more related to easy tasks on this scale.

Published 4 September 2006 in Int J Clin Exp Hypn, 54(4): 392-415.
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