PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Over the years, researchers have proposed that hypnosis is a mental state characterized by reduced peripheral awareness and increased focus on a singular stimulus, which results in an enhanced susceptibility to suggestion (Kihlstrom, 2003).

Detailed explanation-2: -Hypnosis is a trance-like mental state in which people experience increased attention, concentration, and suggestibility. While hypnosis is often described as a sleep-like state, it is better expressed as a state of focused attention, heightened suggestibility, and vivid fantasies.

Detailed explanation-3: -Electroencephalographic (EEG) studies confirm that during hypnosis subjects are not in a sleeplike state but are awake-though sometimes a bit drowsy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Ultimately, four different gradable aspects of consciousness will be described: quality, abstractness, complexity and usefulness, which belong to four different dimensions, these being understood, respectively, as phenomenal, semantic, physiological, and functional.