The history of the most enduring experimental design in hypnosis research is reviewed. More than 75 years of research converge to indicate that: (1) all of the phenomena produced in hypnosis by suggestion also can be produced by suggestion without the induction of hypnosis, (2) the induction of hypnosis produces a relatively small increase in responsiveness to suggestion, and (3) hypnotic and w...

Recent research findings have indicated the need to reconsider what had appeared to be reasonable assumptions about the nature of hypnosis. At first sight, the implications of these studies seem to be at variance with clinical experience and common sense, but careful consideration actually allows us to reconcile clinical and experimental findings in a more satisfactory way than has been possibl...

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An attempt is made, using hypnosis to modify the perception of the passage of clock time, to alter the amount of effective time available to subjects for free-recall learning. If effective time is manipulated successfully by the instructions designed to produce time distortion, subjects receiving hypnotic time distortion instructions designed to stretch 3 minutes into 10 should perform as well ...