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Hypnotic susceptibility and performance on various attention-specific cognitive tasks.

B Wallace, S L Patterson

    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
    |July 1, 1984
    PubMed
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    Individuals with high hypnotic susceptibility perform cognitive tasks faster. High-hypnotic-susceptibility subjects were quicker in visual search and solved more complex arithmetic problems than low-susceptibility subjects.

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    Area of Science:

    • Cognitive Psychology
    • Neuroscience
    • Hypnosis Research

    Background:

    • Cognitive performance varies among individuals.
    • Hypnotic susceptibility is a trait that influences cognitive processing.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To investigate the relationship between hypnotic susceptibility levels and cognitive task performance.
    • To compare the performance of high-hypnotic-susceptibility and low-hypnotic-susceptibility individuals on visual search and arithmetic tasks.

    Main Methods:

    • Experiment 1: Assessed time-to-location in a visual search task with embedded letters.
    • Experiment 2: Evaluated performance on single- and double-digit arithmetic problems within a time limit.
    • Participants were categorized as high- or low-hypnotic-susceptibility subjects.

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    Main Results:

    • High-susceptibility subjects were significantly faster in locating embedded targets in the visual search task.
    • High-susceptibility subjects solved significantly more double-digit arithmetic problems within the time limit, but not single-digit problems.
    • Performance differences suggest varied cognitive strategies employed by different susceptibility levels.

    Conclusions:

    • Hypnotic susceptibility level is associated with differences in cognitive task efficiency.
    • High-hypnotic-susceptibility individuals may utilize more effective cognitive strategies for certain tasks.
    • Findings contribute to understanding the cognitive underpinnings of hypnosis.