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  • Title: Could empathy be a predictor of hypnotic ability?
    Author: Wickramasekera IE, Szlyk JP.
    Journal: Int J Clin Exp Hypn; 2003 Oct; 51(4):390-9. PubMed ID: 14594187.
    Abstract:
    This study examined whether trait empathy is related to hypnotic ability and absorption. Sixty-four graduate students and mental health professionals completed the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A; the Davis Interpersonal Reactivity Index; and the Tellegen Absorption Scale as measures of hypnotic ability, empathy, and absorption. Correlation analysis determined that statistically significant relationships exist between empathy and hypnotic ability (r = .41); empathy and absorption (r = .43); and absorption and hypnotic ability (r = .31). The results also indicate that empathy and absorption are both predictors of hypnotic ability, although absorption does not appear to contribute a statistically significant amount of the explained variance in hypnotizability that is independent of empathy. It may be that the conceptual ground shared by both empathy and absorption is what predicts hypnotic ability.
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