Hypnosis

==== Hilgard’s in-class example: One day in class he hypnotized a student and suggested deafness. He challenged the class to prove the young man was not deaf (making loud noises, etc). One student asked if there was a part of the subject that was till listening. Hilgard asked the student to raise his finger if some part of him could still hear. Up went the finger. THe odd thing is that even the subject did not know why he had raised his finger until it was explained to him after the demonstration. ====

==== Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale -   about 10% are poor subjects, and an equal number are highly hypnotizeable; the rest fall in the middle. The higher you are on the scale, the more easily you can be hypnotized and the more easily you will respond to suggestions. ====

