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Martin T. Orne
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Director, Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital.
Martin T. Orne,
A. Gordon Hammer
Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia. Author of Elementary Matrix Algebra for Psychologists and Social Scientists.
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hypnosis, special psychological state with certain physiological attributes, resembling sleep only superficially and marked by a functioning of the individual at a level of awareness other than the ordinary conscious state. This state is characterized by a degree of increased receptiveness and responsiveness in which inner experiential perceptions are given as much significance as is generally given only to external reality. The hypnotized individual appears to heed only the communications of the hypnotist and typically responds in an uncritical, automatic fashion while ignoring all aspects of the environment other than those pointed out by the hypnotist. In a hypnotic state ...(100 of 1486 words)

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