Editing Suggestibility (section)

==Definition==
Attempts to isolate a global trait of "suggestibility" have not been successful, due to an inability of the available testing procedures to distinguish measurable differences between the following distinct types of "suggestibility":<ref name="wagstaff1991">{{cite book | publisher=Taylor & Frances/Routledge | isbn=978-0-415-90215-1| page=141 | last=Wagstaff | first=Graham F. | name-list-style = vanc | title=Human suggestibility: Advances in theory, research, and application | chapter=Suggestibility: A social psychological approach | location=Florence, Kentucky| year= 1991}}</ref>
*To be affected by a communication or expectation such that certain responses are overtly enacted, or subjectively experienced, without [[Volition (psychology)|volition]], as in [[Automatic behavior|automatism]].
*Deliberately to use one's imagination or employ strategies to bring about effects (even if interpreted, eventually, as involuntary) in response to a communication or expectation.
*To accept what people say consciously, but uncritically, and to believe or privately accept what is said.
*To conform overtly to expectations or the views of others, without the appropriate private acceptance or experience; that is, to exhibit behavioral compliance without private acceptance or belief.

Wagstaff's view is that, because "a true response to [a hypnotic] suggestion is not a response brought about at any stage by volition,{{efn|Subjects participating in hypnotic experiments commonly report that their overt responses to test-suggestions occurred without their active volition. For example, when given a suggestion for arm levitation, hypnotic subjects typically state that the arm rose by itself – they did not feel that they made the arm rise.<ref name=spanos-barber1972 />{{rp|510}} }} but rather a true non-volitional response, [and] perhaps even brought about despite volition",<ref name="wagstaff1991"/> the first category really embodies the true domain of hypnotic suggestibility.

Self-report measures of suggestibility became available in 2004, and they made it possible to isolate and study the global trait.<ref name="MISS">{{cite web | vauthors = Kotov RI, Bellman SB, Watson DB | title = Multidimensional Iowa Suggestibility Scale (MISS): Brief Manual | url = https://renaissance.stonybrookmedicine.edu/system/files/MISSBriefManual.pdf | publisher = Stony Brook University Medical Center | date = 2004 }}</ref>