Factors in hynosis and suggestion.

A set of items of the sort ordinarily included in trance depth scales was administered to a group both in the waking state and in the state immediately following trance inducing procedures. The performances on the items were intercorrelated and factor analyzed for the 2 states separately. The rotated factorial solutions are consistent with the view that in the waking state the items involve, inter alia, ideomotor responsiveness, and vividness of imagery and in the trance state ideomotor responsiveness, vividness of imagery, and dissociation. There is however remarkably little correlation between the performances of individuals from one state to the other in those 2 factors common to the 2 states. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)