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5011.3 The use of the placebo response in clinical practice, M.E. Hyland, University of
Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
When patients are treated medically, the outcome is determined by a combination of the active
pharmacological agent and the placebo response, and where the relative contribution depends on
several factors including disease. It is helpful to manage patients in a way that maximizes this
placebo response when treating with active agents. Two factors contribute to the placebo response
via positive expectancies of treatment: the perceived expertise of the therapist, and the optimism
portrayed by the therapist. Therapists of complementary medicine are sometimes more successful
at promoting perceived expertise and optimism than conventional medical practitioners, and
implications of this are discussed.
5011.4 Expectancies, suggestion, and hypnosis, S.J. Lynn, State University of New York,
Binghamton, NY, USA
For more than 200 years, hypnosis has been associated with dramatic changes in hypnotized
participants; appearance, experiences, and behaviors. Whereas some workers in the field contend
that dissociation or an altered state of consciousness (i.e., "trance") is responsible for hypnotic
phenomena including amnesia, hallucinations, and catalepsy, many, if not all, hypnotic phenomena
can be explained in terms of participants¹ motivation, expectancies, and responsiveness to
imaginative suggestions. This paper will review the literature on the link between expectancies
and a variety of hypnotic responses, with a special focus on the experience of hypnotic
involuntariness.
5011.5 Creating false beliefs and memories for autobiographical events, G. Mazzoni,
University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK
False autobiographical beliefs have been created using a variety of techniques, ranging from
hypnosis to dream interpretation and imagination. Most of these studies show that it is relatively
easy to increase the participants’ belief that a certain event occurred to them and to implant a false
memory of it, although the event did not in fact occur. The relationship between false beliefs and
false memories will be reviewed, and some of the mechanisms that play a role in creating false
beliefs and memories will be discussed in relation to the different ways in which false memories
can be created.
5012 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
The role of independence and interdependence in adolescent-parent conflict and conflict
resolution in diverse cultures
Convener and Chair: J.S. Phinney, USA
5012.1 Chinese adolescents’ conceptions of parental authority in relation to their personal
justifications for conflicts with parents, J. Yau, Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong,
China
Findings from a previous study (Yau & Smetana, 2003) suggest that Chinese adolescents justified
conflicts with parents by appealing to personal jurisdiction, and across contexts, personal
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