Experimental Psychology and Hypnosis

Abstract

The experimental laboratory permits both criticism and constructive extension of knowledge related to such topics as the nature of hypnotic susceptibility, the effects of induction on suggestibility and depth of trance, amnesia, hallucinations, and analgesia. Hypnotic experimentation can in turn illuminate a number of problems within general experimental psychology, i.e., the nature of dreams, the influence of states of arousal on cognitive processes, information processing and memory storage, attitude structure and change, and the specificity doctrine of psychosomatic effects. (45 ref.) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)