258 girls who volunteered for a weight control program were administered the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility. Their scores were significantly higher than other groups reported in the literature. It is speculated that either a basic personality trait or the demand characteristics of the weight program contributed to the group's unusually high hypnotic susceptibility performance.
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