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16 Post author: thelittledoctor 08 May 2012 08:34PM

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Comment author: Mitchell_Porter 13 May 2012 07:46:29PM 1 point [-]

I hope you don't think you are actually "giving amnesia" or doing anything other than roleplaying mind-controller and mind-controllee, in dialogues like these. Those teenagers are just playing along for their own reasons.

Comment author: jimmy 14 May 2012 05:00:06PM *  3 points [-]

That hypothesis certainly isn't new to me.

There's a lot of research on hypnotic amnesia. Here are a few showing differences between hypnotically suggested amnesia and faked amnesia.

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/abn/70/2/123/

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2348012

http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/abn/105/3/381/

The relationship between "actually giving amnesia" and "roleplaying amnesia" is fascinating, but not something I'm going to get into here.