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SUSCEPTIBILITY TO A VISUAL ILLUSION, AS RELATED TO PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SUGGESTIBILITY AND OTHER FUNCTIONS 1
Author(s) -
EYSENCK H. J.
Publication year - 1943
Publication title -
british journal of psychology. general section
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0373-2460
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1943.tb01068.x
Subject(s) - wish , illusion , suggestibility , citation , circumstantial evidence , psychology , permission , library science , history , computer science , social psychology , cognitive psychology , art , philosophy , epistemology , literature , archaeology
Visual, auditory, and other illusions have often been used as tests of suggestibility. Gilbert(1) and Seashore@) were probably the first to use illusions in this context, and Brown included several illusions among his numerous tests of suggestibility(3). Hollingworth put forward the orthodox view when maintaining that “any perceptual illusion may be said to constitute a case of suggestion”(4). Little is known, however, with regard to the correlation of ‘susceptibility to an illusion’ and ‘suggestibility’ as measured by any of the various tests ,of personal and impersonal suggestion in common use. The present paper reports on the relation between susceptibility to the Muller-Lyer illusion, and eight tests of suggestibility, as well as on a few data gathered from other tests.