suggestibility
Britishnoun
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Psychologist Dr Harry Wood said his assessment of Sullivan had highlighted his "limited intellectual capacity" and "suggestibility", which he said should have led to concerns about his answers in interviews and his apparent confessions.
From BBC ● May 13, 2025
There is disagreement among hypnotists over whether they are putting subjects in a hypnotic state, or if the subjects are acting as a result of suggestibility.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2022
A big question now is how broad an issue suggestibility effects are for psychology in general.
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
The suggestibility of large crowds is markedly greater than that of individuals, and to this and the greater faith must be attributed the greater success of the fashionable places of pilgrimage.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 2 "Fairbanks, Erastus" to "Fens" by Various
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