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
The research could improve psychological experiments by helping to determine which measures are prone to suggestibility effects and which are less sensitive, he explains.
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
There are probably a great many phenomena at play here: In addition to suggestibility, at a minimum, we are talking about auditory imagery, synesthesia, and cross-modal perception.
From Slate ● Dec. 5, 2017
The heightened emotionality characteristic of this state bespeaks an increased tendency to outcropping, and so an increased suggestibility.
From The Practice of Autosuggestion by Coué, Emile
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