Comment on Doublethink (Choosing to be Biased)

Sun, 11 Nov 2012 23:18:59 GMT

Not everyone can be hypnotized. About a quarter of people can't be hypnotized, according to research at Stanford.

I've tried to be hypnotized before and it didn't work. I think I'm just not capable of making myself that open to suggestion, even though I would have liked to have been hypnotized.

I heard from one of my psychology professors that those on the extreme ends of the IQ spectrum (both high and low) have more trouble being hypnotized, but I'm not sure if this is actually true. The Stanford research showed that hypnotizability wasn't correlated with any personality traits, but I probably wouldn't consider IQ a personality trait.

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