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Science 19 January 1962:
Vol. 135. no. 3499, pp. 211 - 212
DOI: 10.1126/science.135.3499.211
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Influence of Suggestion and Subjects' Prior Knowledge in Research on Sensory Deprivation

C. Wesley Jackson Jr. 1 and E. Lowell Kelly 1

1 Mental Health Research Institute and Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Several investigators have reported that normal human subjects placed in a dark, quiet room for several hours undergo a variety of hallucinatory experiences; these are typically attributed to extended periods of reduced sensory input. In the present experiment, similarly dramatic subjective experiences occurred within 1 hour when subjects were told of the possibility and appropriateness of such phenomena.


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