Are You Suggesting That’s My Hand? The Relation Between Hypnotic Suggestibility and the Rubber Hand Illusion
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Hypnotic suggestibility (HS) is the ability to respond automatically to suggestions and to experience alterations in perception and behavior. Hypnotically suggestible participants are also better able to focus and sustain their attention on an experimental stimulus. The present study explores the relation between HS and susceptibility to the rubber hand illusion (RHI). Based on previous research with visual illusions, it was predicted that higher HS would lead to a stronger RHI. Two behavioral output measures of the RHI, an implicit (proprioceptive drift) and an explicit (RHI questionnaire) measure, were correlated against HS scores. Hypnotic suggestibility correlated positively with the implicit RHI measure contributing to 30% of the variation. However, there was no relation between HS and the explicit RHI questionnaire measure, or with compliance control items. High hypnotic suggestibility may facilitate, via attentional mechanisms, the multisensory integration of visuoproprioceptive inputs that leads to greater perceptual mislocalization of a participant's hand. These results may provide insight into the multisensory brain mechanisms involved in our sense of embodiment.
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Bayesian combination of the paper's data and Walsh et al.'s prior result provides evidence that proprioceptive drift is related to hypnotisability even when measured as a difference score.
“Bayesian combination of our data and this prior result provides evidence that even when measured in this way, proprioceptive drift is related to hypnotisability (r = 0.22 (SE = 0.08). 95% CI [0.05, 0.38] BH(0,0.3) = 13.86).”
From Trait phenomenological control predicts experience of mirror synaesthesia and the rubber hand illusion (2020) · cites this paper as Walsh et al.46
The a priori estimates for the Bayes factors appear plausible according to the correlation between proprioceptive drift and hypnotisability reported in Walsh et al. and the correlation between subjective report and sensory suggestibility reported in Marotta et al.
“These a priori estimates appear plausible according to the correlation between proprioceptive drift and hypnotisability reported in Walsh et al.46 and the correlation between subjective report and sensory suggestibility reported in Marotta et al.47.”
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- Authors
- Walsh, E., Guilmette, D. N., Longo, M. R., Moore, J. W., Oakley, D. A., Halligan, P. W., Mehta, M. A., & Deeley, Q.
- Affiliations
- King's College London (GB)
- Stonehill College (US)
- University of London (GB)
- Goldsmiths University of London (GB)
- University College London (GB)
- Cardiff University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Walsh, E.
- Venue
- Perception
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2015-06
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 709-723
- ISSN
- 0301-0066 (ISSN-L)
- 1468-4233
- OpenAlex
- W1876197337
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 78
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 7 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 3 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 3.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- kclpure.kcl.ac.uk
- Locations
- Perception (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- BIROn (Birkbeck, University of London) (acceptedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
- ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Human-Computer Interaction › Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Keywords
- hypnotic susceptibility, rubber hand illusion, multisensory integration, embodiment, proprioceptive drift, attention, compliance control, selfhood
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Body Image, Humans, Illusions, Individuality, Proprioception, Suggestion, Visual Perception, Touch Perception
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