Crossword clues for suggestibility
suggestibility
Wiktionary
n. The property of being suggestible.
WordNet
n. susceptibility or responsiveness to suggestion
Wikipedia
Suggestibility is the quality of being inclined to accept and act on the suggestions of others; where false but plausible information is given and one fills in the gaps in certain memories with false information when recalling a scenario or moment. Suggestibility uses cues to distort recollection after persistently being told something pertaining to a past event, one's memory of the event conforms to what they've been told.
A person experiencing intense emotions tends to be more receptive to ideas and therefore more suggestible. Generally, suggestibility decreases as age increases. However, psychologists have found that individual levels of self-esteem and assertiveness can make some people more suggestible than others, which has resulted in the concept of a spectrum of suggestibility.
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.