While this is how the test interprets such a response, other psychologists may just call this type of reaction a form of suggestibility or compliance, as both of these have to do with a person’s willingness to follow instructions. Or, as the hypnosis researcher Graham Wagstaff28 put it, ‘there is a strong case for arguing that much of the special status that has been awarded to hypnosis may have resulted from a failure to consider the power of social pressures and the normal capacities of ordinary human beings’.
