Title |
Color preferences in participants with high or low hypnotic susceptibility
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Published in |
Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, January 2018
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DOI | 10.2147/ndt.s154887 |
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Authors |
Enyan Yu, Junpeng Zhu, Yunfei Tan, Zhengluan Liao, Yaju Qiu, Bingren Zhang, Chu Wang, Wei Wang |
Abstract |
Color preferences vary among normal individuals and psychiatric patients, and this might be related to their different levels of hypnotic susceptibility. We hypothesized that individuals with higher hypnotic susceptibility prefer more arousing colors such as red. Out of 440 participants, we selected 70 with higher (HIGH) and 66 with lower (LOW) hypnotic susceptibilities, and asked them to undergo the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Form C (SHSSC) test, then to order their preferences of 11 colors. The HIGH group preferred red more and scored higher on the total SHSSC. The preference order of black was negatively predicted by the SHSSC Taste hallucination but positively by Arm rigidity, and the preference of yellow was positively predicted by Posthypnotic amnesia and Taste hallucination in the HIGH group. The red preference and the SHSSC associations with black and yellow preferences in participants with high hypnotic susceptibility help to clarify the individual difference of color preference and provide research hints for behavioral studies in normal individuals and psychiatric patients. |
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