The Phenomenological Control Scale: Measuring the Capacity for Creating Illusory Nonvolition, Hallucination and Delusion

Phenomenological control is the ability to generate experiences meet expectancies. There are stable trait differences in this ability, as shown by responses imaginative suggestions of, for example, paralysis, amnesia, and auditory, visual, gustatory tactile hallucinations. has primarily been studied within context of hypnosis, which delivered following a hypnotic induction. Reports substantial relationships between phenomenological (hypnotizability) experimental measures (e.g., rubber hand illusion) suggest need broad investigation influence psychological experiments. However, hypnosis not required successful response suggestion. Because misconceptions about may hypnotizability scores, non-hypnotic scale better matches contextual expectancies other experiments avoids potentially suited such investigation. We present norms Control Scale (PCS), an adaptation Sussex Waterloo Hypnotizability (SWASH) free context. Mean scores PCS higher than SWASH, subjective scales SWASH show similar reliability. The reliable tool measuring suggestion (i.e., control) outside hypnosis.