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- From: wsadjw@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem Nienhuys)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Hypnosis and Repression (was Ritual Abuse Taskforce....)
- Message-ID: <6723@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 10:56:41 GMT
- References: <2933430839.2.p00168@psilink.com> <6696@tuegate.tue.nl> <BzD93F.Jur@cs.uiuc.edu>
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- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- In article <BzD93F.Jur@cs.uiuc.edu> mcgrath@cs.uiuc.edu writes:
- #
- #In situations with strong "demand characteristics", that is where there
- #is a definite social goal that is important, the recollection process
- #may be highly influenced by this goal. Incompetent hypnotists
- #may produce false recollections by feeding the subject hints about
- #the "right answer", which can strongly influence the reconstruction
- #of memories. The really bad news is that once such a recollection
- #has been constructed, it often cannot be distinguished from a real
- #memory by the person. Thus, cloddy hypnotists can not only lead
- #the subject's answer, they can actually create false memories.
- #This is, in fact, what Budd Hopkins and co-workers are doing to
- #their abduction victims.
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- I submit that in many cases "multiple personalities" are also
- created this way.
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- JWN
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