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Suggestibility is the quality of being inclined to accept and act on the suggestions of others. A person experiencing intense emotions tends to be more receptive to ideas and therefore more suggestible. Generally, suggestibility decreases as age increases. However, psychologists have found that individual levels of self-esteem and assertiveness can make some people more suggestible than others, which has resulted in the concept of a spectrum of suggestibility. ==Definition== Attempts to isolate a global trait of "suggestibility" have not been successful, due to an inability of the available testing procedures to distinguish measurable differences between the following distinct types of "suggestibility": *To be affected by a communication or expectation such that certain responses are overtly enacted, or subjectively experienced, without volition, as in automatism. *Deliberately to use one's imagination or employ strategies to bring about effects (even if interpreted, eventually, as involuntary) in response to a communication or expectation. *To accept what people say consciously, but uncritically, and to believe or privately accept what is said. *To conform overtly to expectations or the views of others, without the appropriate private acceptance or experience; that is, to exhibit behavioral compliance without private acceptance or belief. Wagstaff's view is that, because "a true response to (hypnotic ) suggestion is not a response brought about at any stage by volition, but rather a true nonvolitional response, () perhaps even brought about despite volition",〔 the first category really embodies the true domain of hypnotic suggestibility. Self-report measures of suggestibility recently became available, and they made it possible to isolate and study the global trait.〔http://www.stonybrookmedicalcenter.org/psychiatry/kotov_r〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Suggestibility」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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