Is a capacity for negative priming correlated with hypnotizability?: a preliminary study.
Hypnotic responsiveness may depend upon the ability to inhibit the irrelevant stimuli that evoke responses that are incompatible with current goals (or the mapping between an irrelevant/disruptive stimulus and its response) in order to actively maintain task-relevant information. In a simple correlation design, the authors investigated the relationship between cognitive inhibition (negative priming) and hypnotic responsiveness. A statistically significant correlation was obtained between the extent of negative priming (measured in time latency) and hypnotic responsiveness (r = .491). Limitations of this preliminary study and implications for future work are discussed.
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Department of Psychology, Babes-Bolyai University, No. 37 Gh Bilascu Street 3400, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. dand@psiho.ubb.soroscj.ro
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D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D010555:Personality Inventory; D013404:Suggestion; D014706:Verbal Learning