User:Graham Gibson-Smith

Miss-quote of Aristotle. http://publicnoises.blogspot.com/2009/02/aristotle-and-accuracy.html

Suggestibility is not a clearly defined construct. It is approximately the degree to which a person is influenced, in any way; behaviour, thoughts, beliefs, perceptions and sensations etc., without the veto of their own critical faculties. On a continuum, suggestibility vaires inversely with executive function.

Suggestibility is best known for its association with the field of hypnosis, and the idea of hypnotic suggestibility, or susceptibility, with much of the literature on suggestibility appearing in Journals devoted to hypnosis. Some recent research into hypnosis concludes that hypnosis is probably no more than a highly suggestible, and therefore low critiquing, state. In many schools of hypnosis the goal of the practice is to bypass the "critical factor". This idea is not recent, debate as to the nature of hypnosis and its relationship to suggestibility has continued since the nineteenth century, with Mesmer, Charcot, Bernheim, ____ and Binet being prominent authors.

Hans Eysenck established suggestibility as a personality dimension, claiming that there are several types of suggestibility, (Sense and Nonsense in Psychology). No robust correlations have been demonstrated between any measures of suggestibility and other psychological dimensions or domains.

Suggestions may be overt and obvious or covert and subtle. "A winks as good as a nudge".

Suggestion and the reduction of critical reasoning features highly in marketing and sales strategies, it also features in religious movements (especially in cults), in brain-washing, in propaganda campaigns.

It is very old idea, the term was first coined by _____ (ref). influences many areas of