hypnotizable

If a man's a naturally good hypnotic subject he'll be hypnotizable, otherwise not.

Siegel examined Sybil and discovered that she was highly hypnotizable.

Traditional hypnotists have done research which "proves" that only a certain percentage of people are hypnotizable.

Hammond said, "Too bad she's above the hypnotizable stage.

Those volunteers who were highly hypnotizable showed a marked change in the evoked potential, a measure of brain activity.

Before you can be hypnotized, you must first see whether you are hypnotizable.

If you have many ways of inducing a trance, you will find that everyone is hypnotizable.

A 1976 study found that 40% of hypnotizable subjects described new identities and used different names when given a suggestion to regress past their birth.

Multiples tend to be highly hypnotizable women - 90 percent are women - who have suffered difficult childhoods.

"You may not be hypnotizable."

"I bet Gavin's not the hypnotizable type.

Highly hypnotizable people were able to "drain" color from a colorful abstract drawing or "add" color to the same drawing rendered in gray tones.

Sixteen people, half highly hypnotizable and half resistant, went into Dr. Raz's lab after having been covertly tested for hypnotizability.

Hammond greeted Helen: "All the time I talked to Barbara, the life-range indicator showed eight-four, above the hypnotizable range.

However, it is more common for highly hypnotizable individuals to remember less information than low hypnotizable individuals or controls while under suggested post-hypnotic amnesia.

According to decades of research, 10 to 15 percent of adults are highly hypnotizable, said Dr. David Spiegel, a psychiatrist at Stanford who studies the clinical uses of hypnosis.

But with colleagues at Wisconsin, Dr. Robert Nadon and Dr. Richard Davidson, he is undertaking a new study to see whether the right hemisphere of the brain is particularly active during hypnosis in highly hypnotizable people.

In some of the most recent work, Dr. Amir Raz, an assistant professor of clinical neuroscience at Columbia, chose to study highly hypnotizable people with the help of a standard psychological test that probes conflict in the brain.

Later research in the 1990s by Deirdre Barrett at Harvard confirmed most of these characteristics of fantasy prone people, but she also identified another set of highly hypnotizable subjects who had had traumatic childhoods and who identified fantasy time mainly by "spacing out."