suggestibility

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suggestibility (countable and uncountable, plural suggestibilities)

  1. The property of being suggestible.
    • 1992 February 2, H. Askins, “Unthinkable Discrimination”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 5:
      Using techniques of character invalidation (i.e. humiliation), shouting to induce feelings of guilt, fear and suggestibility.
    • 2012, Anne M. Ridley, Fiona Gabbert, David J. La Rooy, Suggestibility in Legal Contexts, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 1992:
      In Europe, through his clinical and forensic work, Gisli Gudjonsson noted that some individuals seemed to be more suggestible than others. This approach assumed that suggestibility is a trait and led to the development of a model of interrogative suggestibility (Gudjonsson & Clark, 1986).

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