suggestibility

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noun

The property of being suggestible.

RareScrabble 21

Meanings

nounsuggestibility (countable and uncountable, plural suggestibilities)

plural suggestibilities

  1. countableuncountableThe property of being suggestible.

    Using techniques of character invalidation (i.e. humiliation), shouting to induce feelings of guilt, fear and suggestibility.

    1992 February 2, H. Askins, “Unthinkable Discrimination”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 28, page 5
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    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).

    2012, Anne M. Ridley, Fiona Gabbert, David J. La Rooy, Suggestibility in Legal Contexts, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 1992

Translations

Finnish suggeroitavuus
  • suggeroitavuusproperty
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