Trait phenomenological control predicts experience of mirror synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion
Nature Communications September 25, 2020 Peter Lush, Vanessa Botan, R. B. Y. Scott et al. 136 citations
Hypnotisability—a normally distributed, stable trait—predicts experiential changes like hallucinations in response to imaginative suggestion, which feel involuntary. Such experiences can also be triggered by implicit suggestion outside hypnosis. In three large samples (156, 404, and 353 participants), substantial relationships were found between hypnotisability and experiential change in mirror-sensory synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion, comparable to relationships with individual hypnosis scale items. The control of phenomenology to meet expectancies from perceived task requirements may explain experiential change in psychological experiments.