suggestibility

[ UK /səd‍ʒˌɛstɪbˈɪlɪti/ ]
NOUN
  1. susceptibility or responsiveness to suggestion
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How To Use suggestibility In A Sentence

  • Your suggestibility and general cluelessness reminds me of nothing more than the unfocused frustration and misappropriation of founding principles that characterizes the Teabagging Right. Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option
  • Yet I suspect that all it is showing is the enormous suggestibility of the human mind, and that common human desire to fit in.
  • The strain in the participant-observer method is clearest at such moments of willed suggestibility. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Even the most coldly logical of us can be prey to suggestibility. Times, Sunday Times
  • In that regard, he mistakes suggestibility for methodology. The Times Literary Supplement
  • All the suggestibility scores were highly elevated and indicate that he tends to give in very readily to leading questions and interrogative pressure.
  • The Basic Hypnosis class covers suggestibility testing, preinduction talk, stress management, induction methods, weight loss, smoking cessation, and setting up a practice. You’re Certifiable
  • The normal variations themselves may go to a limit where they overlap the abnormal artificial product, that is, the suggestibility of many normal persons may reach a degree in which they accept beliefs hardly acceptable to other persons in mild hypnotic condition. Psychotherapy
  • Charcot had affirmed the power, not only of physical traumatism, but even of psychic lesions -- of moral shocks -- to provoke its manifestations, but his sole contribution to the psychology of this psychic malady, -- and this was borrowed from the Nancy school, -- lay in the one word "suggestibility"; the nature and mechanism of this psychic process he left wholly unexplained. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism
  • The traditional positive correlation of absorption and suggestibility essentially dropped out for males, but not for females, when the suggestions were assertively worded, but not when they were nonassertively worded.
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