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Individual differences in object and spatial imagery: personality correlates (2008)
Journal Article
Vannucci, M., & Mazzoni, G. (2009). Individual differences in object and spatial imagery: personality correlates. Personality and individual differences, 46(4), 402-405. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.11.003

In the present study, we investigated whether individual differences in object and spatial imagery are correlated with two personality variables, fantasy proneness and dissociation. One hundred and eight undergraduates filled out the Object-Spatial I... Read More about Individual differences in object and spatial imagery: personality correlates.

"Don't know" responding to answerable and unanswerable questions during misleading and hypnotic interviews (2008)
Journal Article
Scoboria, A., Mazzoni, G., & Kirsch, I. (2008). "Don't know" responding to answerable and unanswerable questions during misleading and hypnotic interviews. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 14(3), 255-265. https://doi.org/10.1037/1076-898X.14.3.255

"Don't know" (DK) responses to interview questions are conceptually heterogeneous, and may represent uncertainty or clear statements about the contents of memory. A study examined the subjective intent of DK responses in relation to the objective sta... Read More about "Don't know" responding to answerable and unanswerable questions during misleading and hypnotic interviews.

Portuguese norms for the Waterloo-Stanford Group C (WSGC) scale of hypnotic susceptibility (2008)
Journal Article
Carvalho, C., Kirsch, I., Mazzoni, G., & Leal, I. (2008). Portuguese norms for the Waterloo-Stanford Group C (WSGC) scale of hypnotic susceptibility. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(3), 295-305. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207140802041850

Portuguese norms for the Waterloo-Stanford Group C (WSGC) scale of hypnotic susceptibility are presented. A Portuguese translation of this scale was given to 625 Portuguese college students. Score distribution, item analysis, and reliability of the W... Read More about Portuguese norms for the Waterloo-Stanford Group C (WSGC) scale of hypnotic susceptibility.

Suggesting childhood food illness results in reduced eating behavior (2008)
Journal Article
Scoboria, A., Mazzoni, G., & Jarry, J. L. (2008). Suggesting childhood food illness results in reduced eating behavior. Acta Psychologica, 128(2), 304-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2008.03.002

Previous studies have shown that suggesting childhood events can influence current self-reported attitudes towards future behavior. This study shows that suggesting a false past event (i.e. becoming sick on a specific food during childhood) can modif... Read More about Suggesting childhood food illness results in reduced eating behavior.

The effect of posthypnotic suggestion, hypnotic suggestibility, and goal intentions on adherence to medical instructions (2008)
Journal Article
Carvalho, C., Mazzoni, G., Kirsch, I., Meo, M., & Santandrea, M. (2008). The effect of posthypnotic suggestion, hypnotic suggestibility, and goal intentions on adherence to medical instructions. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56(2), 143-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/00207140701849478

The effects of implementation intentions and posthypnotic suggestion were investigated in 2 studies. In Experiment 1, participants with high levels of hypnotic suggestibility were instructed to take placebo pills as part of an investigation of how to... Read More about The effect of posthypnotic suggestion, hypnotic suggestibility, and goal intentions on adherence to medical instructions.

Object imagery and object identification: Object imagers are better at identifying spatially-filtered visual objects (2008)
Journal Article
Vannucci, M., Mazzoni, G., Chiorri, C., & Cioli, L. (2008). Object imagery and object identification: Object imagers are better at identifying spatially-filtered visual objects. Cognitive processing, 9(2), 137-143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-008-0203-5

Object imagery refers to the ability to construct pictorial images of objects. Individuals with high object imagery (high-OI) produce more vivid mental images than individuals with low object imagery (low-OI), and they encode and process both mental... Read More about Object imagery and object identification: Object imagers are better at identifying spatially-filtered visual objects.