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Suggestibility

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Suggestibility is the quality of being inclined to accept and act on the suggestions of others where false but plausible information is given and one fills in the gaps in certain memories with false information when recalling a scenario or moment. [1]

55 relations: Absorption (psychology), Alien abduction, Alien abduction entities, Angewandte Psychologie, Belief, Boundaries of the mind, Causality, Children's use of information, Cognitive interview, Collective cognitive imperative, Counter-terrorism, Dependent personality disorder, Expectation (epistemic), Eyewitness memory, Eyewitness memory (child testimony), Fantasy prone personality, God helmet, Grangegorman killings, Gudjonsson suggestibility scale, Gullibility, Hippolyte Bernheim, History of hypnosis, Hypnagogia, Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Hypnotic induction, Interrogation, Ion Luca Caragiale, K. Alison Clarke-Stewart, Lee Scrivner, List of memory biases, Lysergic acid diethylamide, Memory conformity, Memory distrust syndrome, Memory error, Michael Persinger, Misattribution of memory, Misinformation effect, Nancy School, Nessus (Pierson's Puppeteer), Nocebo, Perspectives on the abduction phenomenon, Peter Ellis (childcare worker), Psilocybin, Psychogenic amnesia, Psychokinesis, Reality distortion field, Recreational use of nitrous oxide, Sensory deprivation, Sex differences in eyewitness memory, ..., Somnambulist (disambiguation), Suggestion, Trance, Upstream Color, Wee Care Nursery School abuse trial. Expand index (5 more) »

Absorption (psychology)

Absorption is a disposition or personality trait in which a person becomes absorbed in their mental imagery, particularly fantasy.

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Alien abduction

The terms alien abduction or abduction phenomenon describe "subjectively real memories of being taken secretly against one's will by apparently nonhuman entities and subjected to complex physical and psychological procedures".

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Alien abduction entities

Alien abduction entities are the beings alleged to secretly abduct and subject experiencers to a forced medical examination which often emphasizes their reproductive system.

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Angewandte Psychologie

The book "Angewandte Psychologie" (English: "Applied Psychology") by the Swiss-Austrian psychologists and philosopher Dr Theodor Paul Erismann (*26 September 1883 in Moscow; † 2 December 1961 in Innsbruck) was published in 1917 in Berlin and Leipzig.

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Belief

Belief is the state of mind in which a person thinks something to be the case with or without there being empirical evidence to prove that something is the case with factual certainty.

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Boundaries of the mind

Boundaries of the mind refers to a personality trait concerning the degree of separateness ("thickness") or connection ("thinness") between mental functions and processes.

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Causality

Causality (also referred to as causation, or cause and effect) is what connects one process (the cause) with another process or state (the effect), where the first is partly responsible for the second, and the second is partly dependent on the first.

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Children's use of information

Children's use of information is an issue in ethics and child development.

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Cognitive interview

The cognitive interview (CI) is a method of interviewing eyewitnesses and victims about what they remember from a crime scene.

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Collective cognitive imperative

The collective cognitive imperative is an internal command or obligation felt by suggestible people that often drives their joining some group.

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Counter-terrorism

Counter-terrorism (also spelled counterterrorism) incorporates the practice, military tactics, techniques, and strategy that government, military, law enforcement, business, and intelligence agencies use to combat or prevent terrorism.

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Dependent personality disorder

Dependent personality disorder (DPD), formerly known as asthenic personality disorder, is a personality disorder that is characterized by a pervasive psychological dependence on other people.

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Expectation (epistemic)

In the case of uncertainty, expectation is what is considered the most likely to happen.

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Eyewitness memory

Eyewitness memory is a person's episodic memory for a crime or other dramatic event that he or she has witnessed.

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Eyewitness memory (child testimony)

An eyewitness testimony is a statement given under oath by a person present at an event who can describe what happened.

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Fantasy prone personality

Fantasy prone personality (FPP) is a disposition or personality trait in which a person experiences a lifelong extensive and deep involvement in fantasy.

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God helmet

The God Helmet is an experimental apparatus originally called the Koren helmet after its inventor Stanley Koren.

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Grangegorman killings

The Grangegorman killings were the homicide on 6 March 1997 of Sylvia Shields and Mary Callinan, patients at St Brendan's Psychiatric Hospital in Grangegorman, Dublin, Ireland.

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Gudjonsson suggestibility scale

The Gudjonsson suggestibility scale (GSS) is a psychological test that measures suggestibility.

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Gullibility

Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action.

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Hippolyte Bernheim

Hippolyte Bernheim (17 April 1840, in Mulhouse – 2 February 1919, in Paris) was a French physician and neurologist, born at Mülhausen, Alsace.

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History of hypnosis

The development of concepts, beliefs and practices related to hypnosis and hypnotherapy have been documented since prehistoric to modern times.

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Hypnagogia

Hypnagogia, also referred to as "hypnagogic hallucinations", is the experience of the transitional state from wakefulness to sleep: the hypnagogic state of consciousness, during the onset of sleep.

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Hypnosis

Hypnosis is a state of human consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.

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Hypnotherapy

Hypnotherapy is a type of complementary and alternative medicine in which the mind is used in an attempt to help with a variety of problems, such as breaking bad habits or coping with stress.

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Hypnotic induction

Hypnotic induction is the process undertaken by a hypnotist to establish the state or conditions required for hypnosis to occur.

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Interrogation

Interrogation (also called questioning) is interviewing as commonly employed by law enforcement officers, military personnel, and intelligence agencies with the goal of eliciting useful information.

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Ion Luca Caragiale

Ion Luca Caragiale (commonly referred to as I. L. Caragiale; According to his birth certificate, published and discussed by Constantin Popescu-Cadem in Manuscriptum, Vol. VIII, Nr. 2, 1977, p.179-184 – 9 June 1912) was a Wallachian, later Romanian playwright, short story writer, poet, theater manager, political commentator and journalist.

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K. Alison Clarke-Stewart

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Lee Scrivner

Lee Scrivner is an American writer and cultural theorist known for his book Becoming Insomniac (2014) and for his satirical avant-garde art manifestos.

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List of memory biases

In psychology and cognitive science, a memory bias is a cognitive bias that either enhances or impairs the recall of a memory (either the chances that the memory will be recalled at all, or the amount of time it takes for it to be recalled, or both), or that alters the content of a reported memory.

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Lysergic acid diethylamide

Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), also known as acid, is a psychedelic drug known for its psychological effects, which may include altered awareness of one's surroundings, perceptions, and feelings as well as sensations and images that seem real though they are not.

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Memory conformity

Memory conformity, also known as social contagion of memory, refers to a situation in which one's recollection of a memory influences one person or a group's report of that same experience.

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Memory distrust syndrome

Memory distrust syndrome is a condition coined by Gísli Guðjónsson and James MacKeith in 1982, in which an individual doubts the accuracy of their memory concerning the content and context of events of which they have experienced.

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Memory error

Memory gaps and errors refer to the incorrect recall, or complete loss, of information in the memory system for a specific detail and/or event.

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Michael Persinger

Michael A. Persinger (born June 26, 1945) is a professor of psychology at Laurentian University, a position he held since 1971.

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Misattribution of memory

Memory plays an important role in a number of aspects of our everyday lives and allows us to recall past experiences, navigate our environments, and learn new tasks.

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Misinformation effect

The misinformation effect happens when a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate because of post-event information.

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Nancy School

The Nancy School was a French hypnosis-centered school of psychotherapy.

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Nessus (Pierson's Puppeteer)

Nessus is a fictional character in Larry Niven's Known Space universe, a member of the technologically advanced alien race known to Humans as Pierson's Puppeteer, and amongst themselves as Citizens.

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Nocebo

A nocebo effect is said to occur when negative expectations of the patient regarding a treatment cause the treatment to have a more negative effect than it otherwise would have.

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Perspectives on the abduction phenomenon

Perspectives on the abduction phenomenon are explanations that are intended to explain claims of abduction and examination by apparently otherworldly beings.

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Peter Ellis (childcare worker)

Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis (born 30 March 1958) is a former Christchurch child care worker who was at the centre of one of New Zealand's most enduring judicial controversies.

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Psilocybin

Psilocybin is a naturally occurring psychedelic prodrug compound produced by more than 200 species of mushrooms, collectively known as psilocybin mushrooms.

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Psychogenic amnesia

Psychogenic amnesia or dissociative amnesia, is a memory disorder characterized by sudden retrograde episodic memory loss, said to occur for a period of time ranging from hours to years.

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Psychokinesis

Psychokinesis (from Greek ψυχή "mind" and κίνησις "movement"), or telekinesis (from τηλε- "far off" and κίνηση "movement"), is an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction. Psychokinesis experiments have historically been criticized for lack of proper controls and repeatability. There is no convincing evidence that psychokinesis is a real phenomenon, and the topic is generally regarded as pseudoscience.

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Reality distortion field

Reality distortion field is a term used by Bud Tribble at Apple Computer in 1981, to describe company co-founder Steve Jobs's charisma and its effects on the developers working on the Macintosh project.

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Recreational use of nitrous oxide

Recreational use of nitrous oxide is the inhalation of nitrous oxide gas for its euphoriant effects.

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Sensory deprivation

Sensory deprivation or perceptual isolation is the deliberate reduction or removal of stimuli from one or more of the senses.

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Sex differences in eyewitness memory

The evidence regarding gender differences in eyewitness memory is contradictory.

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Somnambulist (disambiguation)

Somnambulist or The Somnambulist can refer to.

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Suggestion

Suggestion is the psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behavior of another person.

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Trance

Trance denotes any state of awareness or consciousness other than normal waking consciousness.

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Upstream Color

Upstream Color is a 2013 American experimental science fiction film written, directed, produced, edited, composed, designed, cast by and starring Shane Carruth.

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Wee Care Nursery School abuse trial

The school, located in Maplewood, New Jersey, was the subject of a day care child abuse case that went to trial in the 1980s.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suggestibility

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