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Hypnosis as obedience behaviour.

S M Hunt

    The British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology
    |February 1, 1979
    PubMed
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    Witnessing disobedience in hypnosis significantly lowers susceptibility in other subjects. This suggests hypnosis involves an agentic state where individuals yield autonomy to the hypnotist.

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    Area of Science:

    • Psychology
    • Social Psychology
    • Hypnosis Research

    Background:

    • Obedience to authority is a long-standing concept in hypnotic behavior theories.
    • Milgram's obedience experiments in the 1960s provided the first formal model of obedience.
    • Milgram's model offers a framework for analyzing hypnotic behavior, including antecedent variables, binding, strain, and conflict resolution.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To test if the presence of a disobedient hypnotic subject reduces the hypnotic susceptibility of another subject.
    • To explore the application of Milgram's obedience model to understanding hypnotic phenomena.

    Main Methods:

    • An experiment was designed to compare hypnotic susceptibility between subjects exposed to a disobedient peer and control subjects.
    • The experimental manipulation involved one hypnotic subject leaving the hypnotic situation, signaling disobedience.

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    Main Results:

    • Hypnotic susceptibility was significantly lower in subjects who experienced a disobedient peer compared to control subjects.
    • The act of disobedience, specifically leaving the hypnotic setting, demonstrably impacted subsequent susceptibility.

    Conclusions:

    • Hypnosis can be conceptualized as an 'agentic state,' characterized by a relinquishing of autonomy and responsibility to the hypnotist.
    • Subjects remain responsible to the hypnotist for their performance within the hypnotic context, even when autonomy is reduced.