suggestibility
Britishnoun
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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
“I think you might be more open to suggestibility than you imagine,” he tells her.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2021
As with the mirror synesthesia study, the team found that suggestibility predicted the extent to which participants experienced the illusion.
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
Psychologists regard hypnotic suggestibility as only a further stage of this sleepy non-resistance, but I see in the former a more active desire to accept.
From Spiritualism and the New Psychology An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in Terms of Modern Knowledge by Culpin, Millais
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