Lynn, S. J. (1986)

This paper reports on a study which examined the effects of age-regression under hypnosis on the recall of transitional objects (teddy bears, blankets, etc.). The variable examined was whether or not hypnosis and age-regression affected the recall of transitional objects compared to the recall of non-hypnotized subjects and to parents' accounts of these objects. The subject variable was susceptibility to hypnosis. Three hypotheses were proposed: 1) that recollections about transitional objects obtained during hypnotic age-regression will be less accurate than the waking recollections of controls; 2) recollection about transitional objects obtained immediately after termination of hypnosis will be less accurate than the waking recollection of controls; and 3) recollections about the transitional objects obtained after hypnosis will include objects reported during hypnosis, regardless of their accuracy.

Subjects for the study were Ohio University undergraduate students, none of whom had any previous experience with hypnosis. Sixteen highly hypnotizable subjects were chosen for the experimental group, all of whom scored an average of 10.7 on Shor and Orne's Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A, and an average of 21.1 on the modified version of the Revised Stanford Profile Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form 11. Fourteen c

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