Suggestion and Suggestibility

I. Theoretical and Historical Perspectives.- 1. The Development of Research on Suggestibility: Critical Considerations.- 2. Personality, Primary and Secondary Suggestibility, and Hypnosis.- 3. Conceptual Clarification of Hypnosis and its Relationship to Suggestibility.- 4. The Internal Confirmation of Personal Constructs: Why Suggestions are Not Accepted.- 5. Some Suggestions About Suggestion and Hypnosis: A Radical Constructivist View.- 6. The Difficulty in Explaining Suggestion: Some Conceivable Solutions.- 7. Commentary on "Theoretical and Historical Perspectives' ..- II. Suggestibility: Assessment and Individual Differences.- 8. Sensory Suggestibility: Measurement, Individual Differences, and Relation to Placebo and Drug Effects.- 9. Theoretical and Empirical Aspects of Interrogative Suggestibility.- 10. The Independence of Suggestibility, Placebo Response, and Hypnotizability.- 11. Cognitive and Physiological Flexibility: Multiple Pathways to Hypnotic Responsiveness.- 12. Interpretational Sets, Hypnotic Responding, and the Modification of Hypnotizability.- 13. Measurement and Individual Differences of Suggestibility: Some Comments.- III. Psychophysiological Aspects of Suggestibility.- 14. Cortical Event-Related Evoked Potential Correlates of Hypnotic Hallucination.- 15. Hypnotic Susceptibility and Cerebral Hemisphere Preponderance: Verbal-Imaginal Discrimination Task.- 16. 40-H2 EEG and Hypnotizability during Mental Activity.- 17. Hypnotic Susceptibility, Alpha Waves and 40-H2 EEG Rhythm, and Personality.- 18. Perceptual Styles in Chromatic Binocular Rivalry, Hypnotic Susceptibility, and Cerebral Dominance.- 19. Psychophysiological and Psychobiological Aspects of Suggestive Processes: A Commentary.- IV. Social and Cognitive Aspects of Suggestive Processes.- 20. Some Historical and Cultural Aspects of Suggestion.- 21. Suggestion as Social Biasing of Meaning Tests: A Heiderian Extension of the Miller, Galanter and Pribram Paradigm - Catalyzing McGuire's Theory of

Hans J. Eysenck, geb. in Berlin, ist wohl der am meisten bekannte Psychologe des 20. Jahrhunderts mit rund 90 Büchern und fast 1000 Fachartikeln. Weltbekannt (und bis heute grundlegend) wurden seine Studien zur Persönlichkeitsforschung, die häufig zu Test- und Fragebogenverfahren eingesetzt werden. Der Autor war Direktor des Psychiatrischen Instituts der University of London. Er verstarb 1997.