suggestibility
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He also wanted it to consider an expert report that his low intelligence and suggestibility meant his "confession" in a police interview should not have featured in his trial.
From BBC ● May 13, 2025
But it’s an uncomfortable fact that one of the greatest appeals of being part of an audience is the flip side of that mindless suggestibility.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2021
“The correlations are significant but modest. It looks like there’s a lot which isn’t explained by suggestibility,” Haggard says, noting that proprioceptive drift —the implicit measure—in particular was not as strongly related to suggestibility.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 21, 2020
When she is working on a book, she exists in a state of heightened suggestibility, as if everything she sees and hears were hers for the taking.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 18, 2019
This sensitiveness is, as Sidis has clearly seen, closely associated with the suggestibility of the gregarious animal, and therefore with that of man.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra
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