Dynamic and behavioral predictors of hypnotizability.

16 female psychology undergraduate students were drawn from a pool of 48 Ss. 8 students having the highest "oral" scores and 8 having the highest "anal" scores were selected by means of the Blacky test. 1 of the E's attempted a Taffel-type verbal-conditioning problem with each of the Ss. In a separate phase the 2 remaining E's saw the 16 Ss for a hypnotic induction experiment. A comparison of the 2 predictors of hypnotic susceptibility revealed that the oral-anal measure failed completely to predict satisfactory hypnotic Ss while the verbal-conditioning test was successful at a highly significant level. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)