suggestion
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Suggestion is the psychological process by which a person guides their own or another person's desired thoughts, feelings, and behaviors by presenting stimuli that may elicit them as reflexes instead of relying on conscious effort.
Research
5,475,626 papers- "Indirect" suggestion in hypnosis: theoretical and experimental issues.Psychological reports · 1997
- [Positive suggestion techniques in somatic medicine].Orvosi hetilap · 2011
- The neurochemistry of hypnotic suggestion.The American journal of clinical hypnosis · 2021
- Suggestion of self-(in)coherence modulates cognitive dissonance.PloS one · 2018
- Suggestion Timing Moderates the Effects of Prior Pain Experiences on Pain Perception.The journal of pain · 2023
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Article
12 sectionsContents
- Émile Coué
- Charles Baudouin
- Hypnosis
- Trance and suggestion
- Scientific hypnotism
- Temporal dimensions
- Waking suggestion
- Other forms
- See also
- Footnotes
- References
- External links
Suggestion is the psychological process by which a person guides their own or another person's desired thoughts, feelings, and behaviors by presenting stimuli that may elicit them as reflexes instead of relying on conscious effort.
Nineteenth-century writers on psychology such as William James used the words "suggest" and "suggestion" in the context of a particular idea which was said to suggest another when it brought that other idea to mind. Early scientific studies of hypnosis by Clark Leonard Hull and others extended the meaning of these words in a special and technical sense (Hull, 1933).