SUGGESTION

Suggestion

Suggestion is the psychological process by which one person guides the thoughts, feelings, or behaviour of another. Nineteenth century writers on psychology such as William James used the words "suggest" and "suggestion" in senses close to those they have in common speech—one idea was said to suggest another when it brought that other idea to mind. Early scientific studies of hypnosis by Clark Leonard Hull and others extended the meaning of these words in a special and technical sense . The original neuro-psychological theory of hypnotic suggestion was based upon the ideo-motor reflex response of ...

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suggestion

Noun

  1. Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
    I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
    Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
  2. The act of suggesting.
    Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
  3. Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
    He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.


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