APA Dictionary of Psychology
primary suggestibility
- a form of suggestibility that responds to overt influence, as in ideomotor suggestion. Some tests have indicated that this form of suggestibility does not correlate strongly with indirect or secondary suggestibility. Also called direct suggestibility. See also tertiary suggestibility. [proposed by Hans Eysenck]
- an individual’s suggestibility in the absence of hypnosis or similar methods.
Updated on 04/19/2018
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