I will probably take you up on that offer at some point, but first I’d just like some suggestions for good overviews of the field. I saw your resources page, but I haven’t followed the links much yet. What I am most interested in is well-designed experiments demonstrating surprising outcomes.
For example, I’ve seen stage hypnotists put up an “invisible wall” that hypnotized subjects cannot cross, and then offer them large amounts of money if they can cross it, which they are then unable to do. This seems huge, and directly contradicts what I often hear (even from the stage hypnotists themselves), that “hypnosis can’t make anybody do what they don’t already want to do.” Has this been studied in academia?
What I’m most interested in right now, more than models and theorizing about possible mechanisms, is just lots of data from well-designed experiments, showing what hypnosis can and cannot do under what circumstances. Ideally this data would be from peer-reviewed studies rather than tv shows.
I will probably take you up on that offer at some point, but first I’d just like some suggestions for good overviews of the field. I saw your resources page, but I haven’t followed the links much yet. What I am most interested in is well-designed experiments demonstrating surprising outcomes.
For example, I’ve seen stage hypnotists put up an “invisible wall” that hypnotized subjects cannot cross, and then offer them large amounts of money if they can cross it, which they are then unable to do. This seems huge, and directly contradicts what I often hear (even from the stage hypnotists themselves), that “hypnosis can’t make anybody do what they don’t already want to do.” Has this been studied in academia?
What I’m most interested in right now, more than models and theorizing about possible mechanisms, is just lots of data from well-designed experiments, showing what hypnosis can and cannot do under what circumstances. Ideally this data would be from peer-reviewed studies rather than tv shows.