Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, UK; School of Psychology, Cardiff University, UK.
Cultural and Social Neuroscience Research Group, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK.
Conscious Cogn. 2021 Mar;89:103036. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2020.103036. Epub 2021 Feb 5.
Hypnotic suggestibility is part of the wider psychological trait of direct verbal suggestibility (DVS). Historically, DVS in hypnosis has informed theories of consciousness and of conversion disorder. More recently it has served as a research tool in cognitive science and in cognitive neuroscience in particular. Here we consider DVS as a general trait, its relation to other psychological characteristics and abilities, and to the origin and treatment of clinical conditions. We then outline the distribution of DVS in the population, its measurement, relationship to other forms of suggestibility, placebo responsiveness, personal characteristics, gender, neurological processes and other factors, such as expectancy. There is currently no scale specifically designed to measure DVS outside a hypnotic context. The most commonly used and well-researched of the hypnosis-based scales, the Harvard Group Scale, is described and identified as a basis for a more broadly based measure of DVS for use in psychological research.
催眠暗示性是直接言语暗示性（DVS）这一更广泛心理特征的一部分。历史上，催眠中的 DVS 为意识和转换障碍的理论提供了依据。最近，它在认知科学，尤其是认知神经科学中作为一种研究工具。在这里，我们将 DVS 视为一种普遍特征，考虑其与其他心理特征和能力的关系，以及与临床状况的起源和治疗的关系。然后，我们概述了 DVS 在人群中的分布、其测量方法、与其他形式的暗示性、安慰剂反应性、个人特征、性别、神经过程以及其他因素（如期望）的关系。目前，在催眠环境之外，没有专门用于测量 DVS 的量表。描述了最常用和研究最多的基于催眠的量表——哈佛小组量表，并将其确定为用于心理研究的更广泛的 DVS 测量基础。
