Three classrooms of students (n = 98) were tested for hypnotic susceptibility, handedness, and seating preference in an attempt to replicate the relationship between classroom seating and hypnotic susceptibility reported in 1979 by Sackeim, Paulhus, and Weiman. No relationship between these variables emerged for males. For females the relationships were inconsistent across samples. Over-all these results constitute a failure to replicate previously reported findings. Theoretical implications for the relationship between hypnotic susceptibility and “hemisphericity” are briefly discussed.
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