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 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
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
But, perhaps, the chief conclusion to be derived from hypnotic experience is the value of suggestion or suggestibility.
From Hegel's Philosophy of Mind by Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
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