Revisiting the domain of suggestion: A meta-analysis of suggestibility across different contexts

IF 2.6 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-03-27 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113181

Madeline V. Stein , Afik Faerman , Trevor Thompson , Irving Kirsch , Steven J. Lynn , Devin B. Terhune

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Abstract

Trait responsiveness to verbal suggestions (suggestibility) is relevant to a diverse array of clinical and experimental psychological phenomena. An unresolved question is whether different forms of suggestibility, such as direct verbal suggestibility and indirect (interrogative and sensory) suggestibility, comprise a uniform, superordinate trait or distinct abilities with overlapping characteristics. We conducted a pre-registered meta-analysis in accordance with MOOSE and PRISMA guidelines to quantify associations between diverse measures of suggestibility. Fifty-five eligible suggestibility scale correlation pairs from 18 studies were subjected to random effects meta-analyses and meta-regression analyses. The analyses revealed a scale congruency effect such that direct-direct (k = 37) and indirect-indirect (k = 5) suggestibility scale pairs were characterized by strong correlations, whereas incongruent scale pairs (direct-indirect; k = 13) exhibited near-zero correlations. These results corroborate proposals that direct and interrogative suggestibility scales measure discrete suggestion effects, and trait responsiveness to suggestion does not comprise a uniform set of abilities.

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重新审视暗示的领域：不同背景下易受暗示性的元分析

对言语暗示的特质反应（易受暗示）与一系列临床和实验心理现象有关。一个尚未解决的问题是，不同形式的暗示，如直接言语暗示和间接（疑问句和感觉）暗示，是否包含一个统一的、上级的特征或具有重叠特征的不同能力。我们根据MOOSE和PRISMA指南进行了一项预注册的荟萃分析，以量化不同易受暗示指标之间的关联。对来自18项研究的55对符合条件的易受暗示量表相关对进行随机效应荟萃分析和荟萃回归分析。结果表明，直接暗示量表（k = 37）和间接暗示量表（k = 5）具有较强的相关性，而不一致暗示量表(直接间接暗示量表；K = 13)表现出接近于零的相关性。这些结果证实了直接暗示性和询问性暗示性量表测量的是离散的暗示效应，以及特质对暗示的反应并不包括一套统一的能力。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

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8.50

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4.70%

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577

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41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.