title: The hidden observer as an experimental creation.
abstract: Laurence, Perry, and Kihlstrom appear to have misunderstood the theoretical positions advanced both by Hilgard and by Spanos and Hewitt. All of their criticisms of Spanos and Hewitt's "hidden observer" experiment are shown to be either misleading or invalid. The available data provide no support for a dissociation hypothesis of the hidden observer phenomenon. On the other hand, these data indicate strongly that this phenomenon is an experimental creation.
mesh_terms: D000647:Amnesia / Q000523:psychology; D004213:Dissociative Disorders; D006801:Humans; D006991:Hypnosis, Anesthetic; D010146:Pain / Q000523:psychology; D012107:Research Design