ABSTRACT
Highly hypnotizable people have particular personal characteristics, and they differ in substantial ways from their less hypnotizable counterparts. They often become deeply absorbed in experiences, are highly imaginative and use vivid imagery, respond to suggestions across situations, process information more automatically, and show distinct patterns of brain activity (e.g. Crawford and Gruzelier, 1992; Dixon and Laurence, 1992; Hilgard, 1974; Kirsch and Braffman, 2001; Ray, 1997; Roche and McConkey, 1990; Tellegen and Atkinson, 1974). However, not all highly hypnotizable people show all of these characteristics all of the time or across all situations.
