Hypnotic suggestibility predicts the magnitude of the imaginative word blindness suggestion...

This study sought to explain if the level of imaginative word blindness varied based upon what is believed to be a person's hypnotic suggestibility. A non-post-hypnotic suggestion (i.e. imaginative suggestion) was given. The authors claim to have shown a linear relationship between imaginative word blindness and hypnotic suggestibility. They claim that the more suggestible the subject, the more likely they were to encounter word blindness. They also claim that they did not observe similar results should the subject have a negative attitude about hypnosis.

Conscious Cogn. 2013 Jun 15;22(3):868-874. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2013.05.009. Parris BA, Dienes Z. Psychology Research Centre, School of Design, Engineering and Computing, University of Bournemouth, United Kingdom. Electronic address: bparris@bournemouth.ac.uk.