suggestibility
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
Their extraordinarily potent effects on suggestibility is an area that most likely will help us understand their nearly panacea-like properties.
From Scientific American • Jul. 17, 2018
The explanation of the increased suggestibility of the hypnotic subject lies in the abolition, total or partial, of his stream of consciousness.
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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