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- From: delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu (Scott C DeLancey)
- Newsgroups: sci.skeptic
- Subject: Re: Hypnosis and Repression (was Ritual Abuse Taskforce....)
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- Date: 18 Dec 92 23:52:27 GMT
- References: <DLB.92Dec18143616@fanny.wash.inmet.com> <BzH5Gv.Jqv@cs.uiuc.edu> <DLB.92Dec18172154@fanny.wash.inmet.com>
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- In article <DLB.92Dec18172154@fanny.wash.inmet.com> dlb@fanny.wash.inmet.com (David Barton) writes:
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- >I actually don't think there has been a comparative study. Enhanced
- >suggestibility is certainly a characteristic of hypnosis; however, it
- >is certainly NOT unique to hypnosis.
- >
- >Check out some of the recent work on eye-witness testimony in legal
- >mags. I can't give the exact reference --- Mama is a lawyer, and I
- >read it when I go over there. Some of the psychological journals have
- >undoubtedly duplicated this, as the law articles gave references to
- >them.
-
- A lot of the seminal work in this area is by Elizabeth Loftus, a
- psychologist at the University of Washington; she has a book,
- _Eyewitness Testimony_, which is several years old, and I think at least
- one more since. Her general conclusions are just what you are
- suggesting, i.e. that memory is quite unreliable and very susceptible to
- alteration or reconstruction in the course of questioning or discussion.
- (I don't know if she discusses hypnosis anywhere).
- --
- Scott DeLancey delancey@darkwing.uoregon.edu
- Department of Linguistics
- University of Oregon
- Eugene, OR 97403, USA
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