That hypothesis certainly isn’t new to me.
There’s a lot of research on hypnotic amnesia. Here are a few showing differences between hypnotically suggested amnesia and faked amnesia.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/abn/70/2/123/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2348012
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/abn/105/3/381/
The relationship between “actually giving amnesia” and “roleplaying amnesia” is fascinating, but not something I’m going to get into here.
That hypothesis certainly isn’t new to me.
There’s a lot of research on hypnotic amnesia. Here are a few showing differences between hypnotically suggested amnesia and faked amnesia.
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/abn/70/2/123/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2348012
http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/abn/105/3/381/
The relationship between “actually giving amnesia” and “roleplaying amnesia” is fascinating, but not something I’m going to get into here.