Anomalous experiences are more prevalent among highly suggestible individuals who are also highly dissociative*
Acunzo, David ; Cardeña, Etzel LU
and Terhune, Devin B.
LU
(2020)
In Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
25(3).
p.179-189
- Abstract
Introduction: Predictive coding models propose that high hypnotic suggestibility confers a predisposition to hallucinate due to an elevated propensity to weight perceptual beliefs (priors) over sensory evidence. Multiple lines of research corroborate this prediction and demonstrate a link between hypnotic suggestibility and proneness to anomalous perceptual states. However, such effects might be moderated by dissociative tendencies, which seem to account for heterogeneity in high hypnotic suggestibility. We tested the prediction that the prevalence of anomalous experiences would be greater among highly suggestible individuals who are also highly dissociative. Methods: We compared high and low dissociative highly suggestible participants... (More)
Introduction: Predictive coding models propose that high hypnotic suggestibility confers a predisposition to hallucinate due to an elevated propensity to weight perceptual beliefs (priors) over sensory evidence. Multiple lines of research corroborate this prediction and demonstrate a link between hypnotic suggestibility and proneness to anomalous perceptual states. However, such effects might be moderated by dissociative tendencies, which seem to account for heterogeneity in high hypnotic suggestibility. We tested the prediction that the prevalence of anomalous experiences would be greater among highly suggestible individuals who are also highly dissociative. Methods: We compared high and low dissociative highly suggestible participants and low suggestible controls on multiple psychometric measures of anomalous experiences. Results: High dissociative highly suggestible participants reliably reported greater anomalous experiences than low dissociative highly suggestible participants and low suggestible controls, who did not significantly differ from each other. Conclusions: These results suggest a greater predisposition to experience anomalous perceptual states among high dissociative highly suggestible individuals.
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- author
- Acunzo, David
; Cardeña, Etzel
LU
and Terhune, Devin B.
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020-01-20
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Dissociation, hallucination, hypnosis, hypnotisability, sleep
- in
- Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
- volume
- 25
- issue
- 3
- pages
- 179 - 189
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85078299112
- pmid:31955650
- ISSN
- 1354-6805
- DOI
- 10.1080/13546805.2020.1715932
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 92e9e15a-c52b-46ba-b699-9f1f4034a38b
- date added to LUP
- 2020-02-10 14:25:39
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abstract = {{<p>Introduction: Predictive coding models propose that high hypnotic suggestibility confers a predisposition to hallucinate due to an elevated propensity to weight perceptual beliefs (priors) over sensory evidence. Multiple lines of research corroborate this prediction and demonstrate a link between hypnotic suggestibility and proneness to anomalous perceptual states. However, such effects might be moderated by dissociative tendencies, which seem to account for heterogeneity in high hypnotic suggestibility. We tested the prediction that the prevalence of anomalous experiences would be greater among highly suggestible individuals who are also highly dissociative. Methods: We compared high and low dissociative highly suggestible participants and low suggestible controls on multiple psychometric measures of anomalous experiences. Results: High dissociative highly suggestible participants reliably reported greater anomalous experiences than low dissociative highly suggestible participants and low suggestible controls, who did not significantly differ from each other. Conclusions: These results suggest a greater predisposition to experience anomalous perceptual states among high dissociative highly suggestible individuals.</p>}},
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title = {{Anomalous experiences are more prevalent among highly suggestible individuals who are also highly dissociative<sup>*</sup>}},
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