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
“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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