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that it purposely had little emotional content, thereby minimizing the
contribution of such emotional components.
In conclusion, the overall pattern of results of the present study,
combining heart-rate and subjective-rating data, seem to accord best
with a dissociated-control perspective on hypnosis and less well with
the dissociated-experience and social-cognitive approaches. In particu-
lar, the greater ability of high hypnotizable people to produce vivid
and absorbing imagery does not appear to depend on greater underly-
ing cognitive effort.
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