Psychologists such as Robert Baker and Graham Wagstaff claim that what we call hypnosis is actually a form of learned social behaviour, a complex hybrid of social compliance, relaxation, and suggestibility that can account for many esoteric behavioural manifestations.

The case also influenced how very young children were questioned for evidence in court cases with concerns over their capacity for suggestibility and false memories.

The positive Kohnstamm reactivity in Condition 1 ( ( the naive state ) is not adequately explained by such a concept as suggestibility ( if suggestibility is defined as the influence on behavior by verbal cues ).

A differential suggestibility would have to be invoked to explain the failure of this additional information to influence the Kohnstamm-positive reactors and yet attribute their naive Kohnstamm reactivity to suggestion.

A subject under hypnosis experiences heightened suggestibility and focus accompanied by a sense of tranquility.

However, the effects of stage hypnosis are probably due to a combination of psychological factors, participant selection, suggestibility, physical manipulation, stagecraft, and trickery.

Braid can be taken to imply, in later writings, that hypnosis is largely a state of heightened suggestibility induced by expectation and focused attention.

In particular, Hippolyte Bernheim became known as the leading proponent of the " suggestion theory " of hypnosis, at one point going so far as to declare that there is no hypnotic state, only heightened suggestibility.

There is a general consensus that heightened suggestibility is an essential characteristic of hypnosis.

Tests subject to determine degree of physical and emotional suggestibility.

Tests subject to determine degrees of physical and emotional suggestibility.

Acting is seen as altering most of the 14 dimensions of changed subjective experience which characterize ASCs according to Farthing, namely: attention, perception, imagery and fantasy, inner speech, memory, higher-level thought processes, meaning or significance of experiences, time experience, emotional feeling and expression, level of arousal, self-control, suggestibility, body image, and sense of personal identity.

The unusual number of diagnoses after 1980, clustered around a small number of clinicians and the suggestibility characteristic of those with DID, support the hypothesis that DID is therapist-induced.

The characteristics of people diagnosed with DID ( hypnotizability, suggestibility, frequent fantasization and mental absorption ) contributed to these concerns and those regarding the validity of recovered memories of trauma.

At lower doses, these include sensory alterations, such as the warping of surfaces, shape suggestibility, and color variations.

Binet's research with his daughters helped him to further refine his developing conception of intelligence, especially the importance of attention span and suggestibility in intellectual development.

Generally, suggestibility decreases as age increases.

However, psychologists have found that individual levels of self-esteem, assertiveness, and other qualities can make some people more suggestible than others, which has resulted in the concept of a spectrum of suggestibility.

Most would agree with Wagstaff's view that, because " a true response to hypnotic suggestion is not a response brought about at any stage by volition, but rather a true nonvolitional response, perhaps even brought about despite volition ", only category ( 1 ) really embodies the true domain of hypnotic suggestibility.

Fortunately, self-report measures of suggestibility recently became available, and they made it possible to isolate and study the global trait.

Most hypnotherapists and academics in this field of research work from the premise that hypnotisability ( or suggestibility ) is a factor in inducing useful hypnosis states.

Dr. John Kappas ( 1925 – 2002 ) identified three different types of suggestibility in his lifetime that have improved hypnosis:

The type of hypnotic suggestibility in which a subject fears being controlled by the operator and is constantly trying to analyze, reject or rationalize everything the operator says.

However, it is not clear or agreed what suggestibility ( i. e., the factor on hypnosis ) actually is.

In April 2007, RTM announced that the outcome of the test is favourable and expects DVB-T to go public by the end of 2007.

Also, High Definition trials were performed during the Beijing Olympics and the outcome was also favourable.

Its outcome became the basis for O ’ Brien orchestrating the unprecedented Wyndham Land Purchase Act ( 1903 ) through parliament, which abolished landlordism, enabling tenant farmers buy out their landlord ’ s land at favourable annuities, settling the age-old Irish land question.

Each of Erikson's stages of psychosocial development is marked by a conflict for which successful resolution will result in a favourable outcome, and by an important event that this conflict resolves itself around.

The occurrence of the favourable outcome, reaching the food source, only strengthens the response that it produces.

The pilot model ( with welded hull ) was tested with a favourable outcome in 1940 ; though the second pilot had cooling issues.

The favourable outcome was partly attributable to the flight being rerouted at the last minute via a more southerly route across the Atlantic than initially planned, which brought the aircraft within range of the Azores.

Thus, it is also highly probable that he played, with an overall favourable outcome, with the disciples of Philidor of the Société des Amateurs ( Bernard, Carlier, Leger, and Verdoni ).

The outcome is generally considered favourable to the Florentines, but in the Sienese chronicles it was considered a victory.

Arthur being ' sent down ' ended up being a favourable outcome for Bill Treacher, as it allowed him time to recuperate.

As a group they were richer by about £ 90 million by 1914, which would either stay in the Irish economy, given a favourable political arrangement, or leave if the outcome appeared too uncertain or too radical.

Naturally, a plaintiff with appropriate knowledge and finance will always commence proceedings in the court most likely to give a favourable outcome.

Although the period of the Economic War resulted in severe social suffering and heavy financial loss for Ireland, its outcome was publicised as favourable.

As an outcome of the sixth five year plan, there had been steady growth in agriculture, control on rate of Inflation, and favourable balance of payments which had provided a strong base for the seventh five Year plan to build on the need for further economic growth.

Homer was the outcome of a specific society and natural environment, which combined to shape the inherited culture and produce a setting highly favourable to epic poetry.

One academic study ( Heffernan, 2003 ) found that demutualised societies ' pricing behaviour on deposits and mortgages was more favourable to shareholders than to customers, with the remaining mutual building societies offering consistently better rates.

Both works dwelt on her scandalous behaviour, especially that of dressing in men's attire and did not show her in an especially favourable light, though the surviving play is fairly complimentary to her by contemporary standards.