ABSTRACT
Hypnosis is a process in which the issues of control become salient, since it enables new forms of control to be created and old forms to be suspended or destroyed. The procedure was identical to that employed with the hypnotic subjects, except that they were not given any prior hypnotic training or the hypnotic induction during the experiment. The control group consisted of three male and three female undergraduate paid volunteers from the introductory psychology course at Stanford University. All subjects were undergraduates at Stanford University, recruited through the introductory psychology course. The subjects were selected from among the high scorers on a modified version of the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, and randomly assigned to training or no-training groups. To understand better the influence that time exerts on behavior and human thought, psychologists have begun to study the effects upon the subjective experience of time in response to psychedelic drugs, variations in stimulus sequencing, and stimulus "overload".
