What the research on hypnosis actually shows
5 articles
What a hypnotic suggestibility score is actually made of, why it may measure suggestibility more than hypnosis, why two identical scores can hide different people, and how little it predicts clinical outcomes.
How the dominance of Western samples in hypnosis research limits generalizability, what cross-cultural studies suggest, and why cultural context matters for both response and interpretation.
What research shows about who can and cannot be hypnotized, how hypnotizability is distributed and why it matters for clinical outcomes.
What hypnotizability means, how scales measure it, how stable it is, whether training changes it and how well it predicts who benefits from hypnosis.
How the Stanford and Harvard hypnotizability scales work, what they measure, their strengths and limitations and what scores predict.