Individual and sex differences in suggestibility / by Warner Brown.

  • Warner Brown
Date:
1916
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Credit: Individual and sex differences in suggestibility / by Warner Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PAGE VIII. Two experiments dealing with the effect of suggestion upon estimations Of “‘mapnitude foie ace ace tee ns en 385 1. Estimation of distance; 2. Estimation of weight; 3. Conclusions regarding these two experiments. IX. Four experiments dealing with the effect of suggestion upon simple esthetic preferences in the matter of proportions in geometrical figures; ..2502 0 ae ao eee ae eee ee 397 1. Rectangle; 2. Triangle; 3. Cross; 4. Division of a line; 5. Conclusions concerning these four experiments. X. Three experiments dealing with the effect of suggestion upon simple esthetic preferences in the quality of sensation .......... 414 1. Preference for a single color; 2. Preference between two tones; 3. Preference for a combination of two colors; 4. Conclusions concerning these three experiments. XI. Final conclusions concerning sex differences in suggestibility .. 421 XII. Final conclusions concerning individual differences in suggesti- PU Dit yes Ae RE eee em ed 424 INTRODUCTION What is the actual basis of the assertion that some individ- uals are more readily influenced by suggestion than others? Is it true that some persons possess a trait which may be called ‘‘suggestibility’’, while others possess a certain positiveness of character which enables them to resist suggestions? And, in particular, is it true that men are less suggestible than women? With these questions in mind, experiments were carried on from August, 1912, till May, 1914, in the Psychological Laboratory of the University of California. These experiments were all very simple. The suggestions were given in the form of printed directions concerning what seemed to be perfectly commonplace laboratory exercises. The persons who received the suggestions were all students in elementary courses in psychology, and they were asked to do things which they thought they understood, and about which they had no misgivings. Careful and systematic inquiry made it certain that none of them suspected that the experiments had anything to do with suggestion, or that there
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