ABSTRACT
By now you have most likely had the experience of performing hypnotic inductions, facilitating hypnotic phenomena, and structuring and delivering suggestions to other people during hypnosis that were meant to be helpful to them. As you have no doubt discovered from your direct experience, peoples’ responses to your hypnotic processes can range from minimal to dramatic. You can now better appreciate why assessing hypnotizability has been the subject of serious inquiry as researchers and clinicians attempt to understand why people differ so substantially in their abilities to respond. Hypnosis as a vehicle for delineating individual differences is a very active and interesting domain of research into the areas of human personality and cognition.
