Susceptibility or responsiveness to suggestion

Usage examples of suggestibility.

Schacter catalogs them as transience, persistence, absentmindedness, blocking, bias, misattribution, and suggestibility.

But the main topic of this article is memory distortion, which Schacter considers in his last three categories: bias, misattribution, and suggestibility.

But much more worrisome is that so many therapists accept these reports at face value, with inadequate attention given to the suggestibility of clients and to unconscious cuing by their interlocutors.

The Devourers want not only the patronage of all beings in all universes, but - doubtless because they are afraid someone will some day raise the ever-unpleasant question of the true worth of things - they want all their customers reduced to a state of slavish and submissive suggestibility, so that they are fit for nothing whatever but to gawk at and buy the trash the Devourers offer for sale.

The Devourers want not only the patronage of all beings in all universes, but—doubtless because they are afraid someone will someday raise the ever-unpleasant question, of the true worth of things—they want all their customers reduced to a state of slavish and submissive suggestibility, so that they are fit for nothing whatever but to gawk at and buy the trash the Devourers offer for sale.

We are tied down by the frightful limitation of our human faculties, by the notions which society imposes on us through our fatal suggestibility, by our own personalities.