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Green, J. P. (2004). The five factor model of personality and hypnotizability: Little variance in common. Contemporary Hypnosis, 21(4), 161-168. In 285 undergraduates, this study compared the NEO-PI-R and the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility (HGSHS). Gender and personality test scores were accounted for by approximately 8% (6% adjusted) of the variance in hypnotizability scores. The scores on individual facets on the NEO-PI-R accounted for about 21% (12% adjusted) of the variance on the HGSHS:A. These results are consistent with previous studies that attempted to correlate hypnotizability with a measure of the five factor model of personality.

Address for reprints: Joseph P. Green, Ph.D., Psychology Department, Ohio State University, Lima, OH 45804, USA. E-mail: green.301@osu.edu

Posted: 03/17/2007

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