Violeta ENEA*, Ion DAFINOIU
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iaşi, Romania
Abstract
A group of highly-suggestible adolescents (n=25) and a group of adolescents with low suggestibility (n=25) followed a hypnotic induction procedure, during which a suggestion of posthypnotic amnesia was given, with the purpose of assessing its influence on autobiographical memory and of investigating if hypnosis-induced amnesia shares the same characteristics as functional amnesia. Statistical analysis confirmed the results of previous studies in the field and, surprisingly, pointed out that even less suggestible participants can be influenced by the suggestion of posthypnotic amnesia. In their case, however, trance levels were more superficial than in the case of highly-suggestible participants.
Keywords: hypnosis, posthypnotic amnesia, autobiographical memory, adolescents
Pages: 201-215
