The Carleton University Responsiveness to Suggestion Scale (CURSS) was individually administered to 59 subjects on two occasions. All three CURSS suggestibility dimensions remained stable across sessions. In addition, experimenter's and subjects' self-ratings of overt response to test suggestions were highly correlated. Amnesia, scored as a continuous variable, also remained stable across sessions.
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