Hypnosis Research

Instruments for Assessing Hypnotizability

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Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS:A)

Link to the standard HGSHS:A script, as originally published by Consulting Psychologists Press, and now out of print(PDF).

Link to the HGSHS:A subject's self-report response booklet, as modified by J.F. Kihlstrom (PDF).

Link to information on the measurement of involuntariness on HGSHS:A (HTML).

Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C (SHSS:C)

Link to the original SHSS:C Script and scoring materials, as originally published by Consulting Psychoogists Press, and now out of print (PDF).

Link to the SHSS:C script, as modified by J.F. Kihlstrom (PDF)).

Link to the SHSS:C experimenter's scoring sheet, as modified by J.F. Kihlstrom (PDF).

Link to the manual for the "tailored" version of SHSS:C, as developed by Hilgard et al. (PDF)

Other Materials

Link to the script for the Arizona Motor Scale of Hypnotizability (AMSH), a special-purpose instrument not intended for general use -- and certainly not intended as a substitute for HGSHS:A or SHSS:C.  Link to a page analyzing the performance of a normative sample of college-student subjects.

Link to a script for building rapport with subjects and patients prior to their first experience of hypnosis (PDF).

Link to a Human Subjects Protocol that covers my hypnosis research at the University of California, Berkeley (HTML).  

Link to information on the Tellegen Absorption Scale (Tellegen & Atkinson, 1973), often administered prior to a subject's first experience of hypnosis (HTML). 

Links to tests of mental imagery, often administered prior to a subject's first experience of hypnosis (HTML):  

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