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PREDICTING HYPNOTIZABILITY FROM THE MAUDSLEY PERSONALITY INVENTORY
Author(s) -
HILGARD ERNEST R.,
BENTLER P. M.
Publication year - 1963
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1963.tb00862.x
Subject(s) - hypnotic susceptibility , psychology , neuroticism , extraversion and introversion , personality , hypnosis , personality assessment inventory , minnesota multiphasic personality inventory , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , big five personality traits , social psychology , alternative medicine , pathology , physics , quantum mechanics , medicine
In an attempt to repeat the findings of Furneaux & Gibson, 142 undergraduate students at Stanford were hypnotized by the procedures of the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale and a group adaptation of this scale. All subjects were also given the Maudsley Personality Inventory, including the Extraversion, Neuroticism, and Lie scales. When the subjects were subdivided into personality classifications according to the procedures of the Furneaux & Gibson study, significant differences between subgroups were found, but these were opposite to the significant differences found in the London study, ‘liars’ being below average in hypnotizability in England, and above in America, and, among the ‘honest’ subjects, Stable Extraverts and Neurotic Introverts being more hypnotizable than Neurotic Extraverts and Stable Introverts in England, less hypnotizable in America. Because of instability in successive samples in America, and some differences between English subsamples, it is suggested that elaborate hypotheses are not in order until there has been further replication both in England and America. Correlations between scores on individual MPI scales and hypnotic susceptibility show a most unsatisfactory variation from sample to sample; hence the most acceptable conclusion must be that the MPI cannot yet be used as a predictor of susceptibility to hypnosis.