Non-state explanations - Description
Socio - cognitive theory of hypnosis
- Wagstaff suggests compliance and belief are affceted in hypnosis.
- A hypnotised person complies to suggestions from the hypnotist in the same way that we comply to obedience and conformity. Avoids the embarrassment of not being hypnotised or of appearing disobedient.
- A hypnotied person believes their behaviour is not volitional and this belief leads them ti regard the state as 'real', same as, e.g. Valins, who found male participants provided rational explanations for non-volitional behaviour.
- The ESC (Expectation, Strategy, Compliance) process (Wagstaff, 1986) suggests that hypnotic subjects decide what the hypnotist wants then use cognitive startegies to achieve this. If this fails, they comply.
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