janney@unm-cvax.UUCP (07/08/84)
The Spring 1981 issue of the Skeptical Inquirer has an article on the
use of hypnosis in interrogation. The following quote seems relevant:
Orne's paper suggests that the use of hypnosis by pro-UFO
investigators can generate what he calls "pseudo-memories,"
which may enable a subject to tell a convincing story later
when not under hypnosis. Such "pseudo-memories can and often
do become incorporated into the individual's memory store as
though they had actually happened...If a witness is hypnotized
and has factual information casually gleaned from newspapers
or inadvertent comments made during prior interrogation or in
discussion with others...many of these bits of knowledge will
become incorporated and form the basis of any pseudo-memories
that develop."
References cited in the article:
Hilgard, J. R. 1979. Personality and Hypnosis: A Study of
Imaginative Involvement, 2nd ed. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press
Orne, M. T. 1971 "The Potential Uses of Hypnosis in
Interrogation." In A. D. Biderman and H. Zimmer, eds.,
The Manipulation of Human Behavior, New York: Wiley
Jim Janney
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