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Does anybody here know anything about hypnosis, especially academic research? In this post Armok_GoB posted an interesting link. Especially notable is the video of a hypnotist convincing strangers on the street to give him their wallets, supposedly with a 66% success rate.
It seems like a potentially very important area of research, and could be highly relevant to CFAR's goals.
I know a thing or two about hypnosis and the academic research on it ("interesting link" points to a post on my blog ).
There are definitely large, tasty, and low hanging fruit to be found - and the results generalize well to "non hypnosis" (whatever that means). There are relatively few smart minds pushing these boundaries, so the marginal impact of another one could be big.
If you (or anyone else) want to chat about it, PM me and we can do google chat or skype or something.
I will probably take you up on that offer at some point, but first I'd just like some suggestions for good overviews of the field. I saw your resources page, but I haven't followed the links much yet. What I am most interested in is well-designed experiments demonstrating surprising outcomes.
For example, I've seen stage hypnotists put up an "invisible wall" that hypnotized subjects cannot cross, and then offer them large amounts of money if they can cross it, which they are then unable to do. This seems huge, and directly contradicts what I often hear (even from the stage hypnotists themselves), that "hypnosis can't make anybody do what they don't already want to do." Has this been studied in academia?
What I'm most interested in right now, more than models and theorizing about possible mechanisms, is just lots of data from well-designed experiments, showing what hypnosis can and cannot do under what circumstances. Ideally this data would be from peer-reviewed studies rather than tv shows.
You may want to have a chat with jimmy.
Brings this to mind.
Seconding this, It's a field I'm pretty interested in. Would appreciate a reply to this post also replying to this comment so I can get notified.
Could I have one too?
Same, please.