Suggestion
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Strength of prefrontal activation predicts intensity of suggestion-induced pain.

30 Aug 2009 Suggestion, a powerful factor in everyday social interaction, is most effective during hypnosis. Subjective evaluations and brain-imaging findings converge to propose that hypnotic suggestion strongly modulates sensory processing. To reveal the ... Read more...

Reducing immunization discomfort in 4- to 6-year-old children: a randomized clinical trial.

11 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: The goal was to test a multifaceted distraction method designed to reduce injection-associated pain in school-aged children. METHODS: A clinical trial evaluated 41 children, 4 to 6 years of age, who were given 3 standard prekindergarten ... Read more...

Effects of information type on children's interrogative suggestibility: is Theory-of-Mind involved?

29 Jun 2009 This research was aimed at learning more about the different psychological mechanisms underlying children's suggestibility to leading questions, on the one hand, and children's suggestibility to negative feedback, on the other, by distinguishing ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Suggestion'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Strength of prefrontal activation predicts intensity of suggestion-induced pain. 30 Aug 2009
• Reducing immunization discomfort in 4- to 6-year-old children: a randomized clinical trial. 11 Jul 2009
• Effects of information type on children's interrogative suggestibility: is Theory-of-Mind involved? 29 Jun 2009
• A temporal discriminability account of children's eyewitness suggestibility. 29 Jun 2009
• A comment on an alleged association between hypnosis and death: two remarkable cases. 29 Jun 2009
• A spiritual-hypnosis assisted treatment of children with PTSD after the 2002 Bali terrorist attack. 29 Jun 2009
• Digitally manipulating memory: effects of doctored videos and imagination in distorting beliefs and memories. 30 May 2009
• The revelation effect for autobiographical memory: a mixture-model analysis. 30 May 2009
• Food advertising during children's television in Canada and the UK. 26 May 2009
• Why do doctored images distort memory? 25 May 2009
• Children, adolescents and the media: what we know, what we don't know and what we need to find out (quickly!). 10 May 2009
• Metamemory development: understanding the role of similarity in false memories. 29 Apr 2009
• Fatigue during breast cancer radiotherapy: an initial randomized study of cognitive-behavioral therapy plus hypnosis. 29 Apr 2009
• A rationale for suggestion in dentistry. 30 Mar 2009
• Israeli norms for the Stanford hypnotic susceptibility scale, Form C. 30 Mar 2009
• A note of caution on the Waterloo-Stanford Group Scale of hypnotic susceptibility: a brief communication. 30 Mar 2009
• Expert judgment in cases of alleged child sexual abuse: clinicians' sensitivity to suggestive influences, pre-existing beliefs and base rate estimates. 30 Mar 2009
• Memory impairment in the weapon focus effect. 30 Mar 2009
• The influence of instructions and terminology on the accuracy of remember-know judgments. 29 Mar 2009
• Suggested visual hallucinations in and out of hypnosis. 14 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Suggestion'

Definition: The uncritical acceptance of an idea or plan of action.

Descriptor UI: D013404

Alternative terms: Suggestion; Suggestions;

Related Mesh Headings: Autogenic Training; Persuasive Communication;

Tree Number: E02.190.525.217.771; F04.754.424.771;

Technical Notes: no qualif; consider also PERSUASION see PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION