Best evidence that hypnotism is real

• Autores: Clare Wilson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3119, 2017, pág. 15
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Peter Lush at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science in Brighton and his team asked 18 people who were highly susceptible to hypnotism to sit in front of a very accurate clock and do a task repeatedly where they pressed a button, triggering a beep after 250 milliseconds. If their finger was pulled down involuntarily--by a string--they perceived the period before the beep as 176 milliseconds on average. If the string wasn't pulled and they those when to press the button, they estimated it as 91 milliseconds, showing intentional binding. But if they were commanded to press the button while hypnotized, they perceived it as 156 milliseconds--doser to the involuntary state. In this latest study, the volunteers were unlikely to have known what their answers should have been in the three different situations.