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The "eidetic image" and "hallucinatory" behavior: A suggestion for further research.
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This article is published in Psychological Bulletin.The article was published on 1959-05-01. It has received 39 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Eidetic imagery.read more
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Twenty years of haunting eidetic imagery: where's the ghost?
TL;DR: The evidence in the present review casts doubt on eidetic imagery as a developmentally less mature memorial representation, which is gradually replaced by more abstract representations as the child acquires abstract thought, reading, and more advanced cognitive abilities.
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A deeper understanding of hypnosis: its secrets, its nature, its essence.
TL;DR: All hypnotic subjects are affected, albeit in different ways for different types of subjects, by four powerful behavior-determining factors that can be potentially maximized in hypnotic situations.
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Antisocial and criminal acts induced by "hypnosis". A review of experimental and clinical findings.
TL;DR: To provide an answer to the latter question, the present paper reviews all pertinent experimental and theoretical literature on hypnosis and indicates which of the many concrete conditions subsumed under the abstract term hypnosis are instrumental and which irrelevant to producing such behavior.
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Toward a theory of “hypnotic” behavior: Positive visual and auditory hallucinations
TL;DR: In this paper, a series of experiments are critically reviewed: experiments concerned with the objective validity of hypnotic visual and auditory hallucinations; and experiments which set out to specify the variables relevant to eliciting such hallucinations.
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The Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Hypnotic Behavior
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of hypnosis stands or falls by its answer to one crucial question: Why do some subjects quickly and easily experience many of the phenomena of Hypnosis while other subjects show very little if any hypnotic behavior after many attempts by numerous hypnotists?
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Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
TL;DR: The first systematic, scientific treatise on individual differences in psychological phenomena Francis Galton's work marked the beginning of the scientific study of imagery and the association of ideas Here for the first time he sketched out the essentials of a theory of mental testing as discussed by the authors.
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Hallucinations and Illusions: A Study of the Fallacies of Perception
TL;DR: Parish as mentioned in this paper made a valuable contribution to the study of the psychology of perception as well as introducing a theory of insanity in this 1897 work, which grew out of an examination of the German "International Census of Waking Hallucinations in the Sane", the results of which he had analysed.