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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). This version measures the experience of
involuntariness on a continuous scale.
Link to the HGSHS:A subject's self-report response booklet, as modified by J.F. Kihlstrom (PDF). This version measures the experience of involuntariness on a categorical scale.
Link to information on the measurement of involuntariness on HGSHS:A (HTML). For a more detailed analyses of some options for scoring experienced involuntariness, see: "Experienced Involuntariness, Subjective Success, and Assessments of Hypnotic Response", unpublished paper by J.F. Kihlstrom & Martha L. Glisky, c. 1992.
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)
Stanford Profile Scales of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Forms I and II (SPSHS:I & II)
Brenneman, H.A., & Kihlstrom, J.F. (1986). Patterns of hypnotic abilities. Unpublished manuscript, University of Arizona. Reports an early cluster analysis of data from the Stanford Profile Scales of Hypnotic Susceptibility. Subsequently revised in 1987 and 1988.
Human subjects
issues in hypnosis research. Presentation to the Research
Workshop of the annual meeting of the Society for Clinical and
Experimental Hypnosis, Berkeley, California, October 2013.
Link to slide show.
Link
to materials pertaining to subject recruitment for hypnosis
research.
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 covered 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). At the request of the University of Minnesota Press, I
have removed from my website a copy of the actual Absorption
Scale. For more information about the Tellegen Absorption
Scale, please contact the University of Minnesota Press (and
tell them their policy is silly).
Links to tests of mental
imagery, often administered prior to a subject's first
experience of hypnosis (HTML):
Link
to an ongoing list of literature and film involving hypnosis as
a plot device.
Link
to "Psychology 1 with E.G. Boring: Episode 13: Hypnosis" (from
1958), early National Educational Television production
featuring Martin T. Orne, with cameo appearances by Boring, the
great historian of psychology. https://youtu.be/blZyGk-1K1U.
Link to
“The Nature of Things: Hypnosis", an episode of a
science-documentary series aired by the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation (episode aired June 30, 1963, in
Season 3). https://youtu.be/OVhGtrjgP7M.
Link
to A Saga of Hypnosis: Two Decades of the Stanford
Laboratory for Hypnosis Research, 1957-1979, by E.R.
Hilgard. Privately distributed on the occasion of the
closing of Hilgard's laboratory, this document also served
as the final report on Hilgard's long-running NIMH
grant. Summarizes the lab's activity and findings;
provides a comprehensive bibliography of the lab's
publications (through 1979) and Hypnosis Research Memoranda
(internal documents describing pre-publication results as
well as occasional observations that were never formally
published; also provides a listing of all the laboratory's
professional staff members and visiting scholars.
This page last revised 05/07/2021.