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Researchers explored distinct patterns of responsiveness to hypnotic suggestions, finding three profiles in highly hypnotizable individuals and one in medium hypnotizability. Further research with larger datasets is needed to confirm specific high hypnotizability types.

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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience

Background:

  • Hypnotizability has been theorized to comprise discrete patterns of response to suggestions.
  • Previous research (Brenneman & Kihlstrom, 1986) identified 12 response profiles using cluster analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate discrete patterns of responsiveness to hypnotic suggestions.
  • To compare findings with previous cluster analysis studies.
  • To explore potential typologies of high hypnotizability.

Main Methods:

  • Latent profile analysis was employed on data from Terhune (2015).
  • Comparison with cluster analysis results from Brenneman and Kihlstrom (1986).

Main Results:

  • Evidence for three distinct response patterns in highly hypnotizable subjects.
  • Identification of a fourth pattern encompassing medium hypnotizability subjects.
  • Differences noted between latent profile analysis and prior cluster analysis findings.

Conclusions:

  • The study suggests a limited number of response patterns to hypnotic suggestions.
  • Larger datasets and specific measures of awareness and involuntariness are required to confirm discrete high hypnotizability types (e.g., dissociative, nondissociative).