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Suggestibility and Persistence in Epileptics and Mental Defectives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Margaret Brady
Margaret Brady*
Affiliation:
Psychological Laboratory, Institute of Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital, London S.E.5
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In recent years many attempts have been made to improve methods of temperament testing, and to show the validity of the results by comparing test-scores of groups of subjects known to be differentiated with respect to certain traits (Cattell (1), Eysenck (2), Himmelweit (5)). Thus there has been found a very significant correlation between degree of neuroticism and suggestibility, and a correlation almost as high between degree of neuroticism and persistence. These results have suggested the possibility of using tests of this kind in an attempt to measure the neurotic tendencies of individual subjects, and to screen the more neurotic from types of occupation likely to impose too great a strain on them (Eysenck (3)).

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 94 , Issue 395 , April 1948 , pp. 444 - 451
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1948 

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