- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword: Navigating a Post-Truth World: Ten Enduring Lessons from the Study of Pseudoscience
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Pseudoscience: What It Costs and Efforts to Fight It
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1 Pseudoscience and the Pursuit of Truth -
2 The Psychology of (Pseudo)Science: Cognitive, Social, and Cultural Factors -
3 The Illusion of Causality: A Cognitive Bias Underlying Pseudoscience -
4 Hard Science, Soft Science, and Pseudoscience: Implications of Research on the Hierarchy of the Sciences -
5 Food-o-science Pseudoscience: The Weapons and Tactics in the War on Crop Biotechnology -
6 An Inside Look at Naturopathic Medicine: A Whistleblower’s Deconstruction of Its Core Principles -
7 Risky Play and Growing Up: How to Understand the Overprotection of the Next Generation -
8 The Anti-Vaccine Movement: A Litany of Fallacy and Errors -
9 Understanding Pseudoscience Vulnerability through Epistemological Development, Critical Thinking, and Science Literacy -
10 Scientific Failure as a Public Good: Illustrating the Process of Science and Its Contrast with Pseudoscience -
11 Evidence-Based Practice as a Driver of Pseudoscience in Prevention Research -
12 Scientific Soundness and the Problem of Predatory Journals -
13 Pseudoscience, Coming to a Peer-Reviewed Journal Near You -
14 “Integrative” Medicine: Integrating Quackery with Science-Based Medicine -
15 Hypnosis: Science, Pseudoscience, and Nonsense -
16 Abuses and Misuses of Intelligence Tests: Facts and Misconceptions -
17 Reflections on Pseudoscience and Parapsychology: From Here to There and (Slightly) Back Again -
18 Using Case Studies to Combat a Pseudoscience Culture -
19 “HIV Does Not Cause AIDS”: A Journey into AIDS Denialism -
20 Swaying Pseudoscience: The Inoculation Effect -
21 The Challenges of Changing Minds: How Confirmation Bias and Pattern Recognition Affect Our Search for Meaning -
22 Truth Shall Prevail - Contributor List
- Index
Hypnosis: Science, Pseudoscience, and Nonsense
Hypnosis: Science, Pseudoscience, and Nonsense
- Chapter:
- (p.331) 15 Hypnosis: Science, Pseudoscience, and Nonsense
- Source:
- Pseudoscience
- Author(s):
Steven Jay Lynn
Ashwin Gautam
Stacy Ellenberg
Scott O. Lilienfeld
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
In this chapter we present evidence garnered from the scientific literature to counter or refute prevalent yet mistaken beliefs about hypnosis (e.g., participants respond robotically, hypnosis is a sleep-like state, hypnosis greatly increases suggestibility). We discuss the robust influence of the media and stage hypnosis in perpetuating myths of hypnosis as a trance-like state, and we contend that research does not support the existence of a reliable marker (e.g., hypnotized participants respond literally, exhibit a greater tolerance for logical incongruity, and can override the optokinetic reflex) of a special state of consciousness uniquely associated with hypnosis. We further suggest that myths and misconceptions can have serious personal and social consequences and can be misused in forensic and psychotherapeutic consequences. Nevertheless, we also contend that there is accumulating evidence that hypnosis, when properly administered, may be helpful in the treatment of a number of psychological and medical conditions. Despite the myths and misconceptions surrounding hypnosis, the scientific study of hypnosis has advanced beyond hokum and pseudoscience to move hypnosis increasingly into the mainstream of psychological science.
Keywords: hypnosis, trance, consciousness, psychotherapy
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Foreword: Navigating a Post-Truth World: Ten Enduring Lessons from the Study of Pseudoscience
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Pseudoscience: What It Costs and Efforts to Fight It
-
1 Pseudoscience and the Pursuit of Truth -
2 The Psychology of (Pseudo)Science: Cognitive, Social, and Cultural Factors -
3 The Illusion of Causality: A Cognitive Bias Underlying Pseudoscience -
4 Hard Science, Soft Science, and Pseudoscience: Implications of Research on the Hierarchy of the Sciences -
5 Food-o-science Pseudoscience: The Weapons and Tactics in the War on Crop Biotechnology -
6 An Inside Look at Naturopathic Medicine: A Whistleblower’s Deconstruction of Its Core Principles -
7 Risky Play and Growing Up: How to Understand the Overprotection of the Next Generation -
8 The Anti-Vaccine Movement: A Litany of Fallacy and Errors -
9 Understanding Pseudoscience Vulnerability through Epistemological Development, Critical Thinking, and Science Literacy -
10 Scientific Failure as a Public Good: Illustrating the Process of Science and Its Contrast with Pseudoscience -
11 Evidence-Based Practice as a Driver of Pseudoscience in Prevention Research -
12 Scientific Soundness and the Problem of Predatory Journals -
13 Pseudoscience, Coming to a Peer-Reviewed Journal Near You -
14 “Integrative” Medicine: Integrating Quackery with Science-Based Medicine -
15 Hypnosis: Science, Pseudoscience, and Nonsense -
16 Abuses and Misuses of Intelligence Tests: Facts and Misconceptions -
17 Reflections on Pseudoscience and Parapsychology: From Here to There and (Slightly) Back Again -
18 Using Case Studies to Combat a Pseudoscience Culture -
19 “HIV Does Not Cause AIDS”: A Journey into AIDS Denialism -
20 Swaying Pseudoscience: The Inoculation Effect -
21 The Challenges of Changing Minds: How Confirmation Bias and Pattern Recognition Affect Our Search for Meaning -
22 Truth Shall Prevail - Contributor List
- Index
