ArticleCerebral cortex communications2020
Feel Safe and Money is Less Important! Hypnotic Suggestions of Safety Decrease Brain Responses to Monetary Rewards in a Risk Game.
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- Hypnotic safety suggestions reduce cortisol awakening response and morning heart rate in daily life.Scientific reports · 2026Trial
- Reducing Perioperative Anxiety and Postoperative Discomfort in Children With Hypnosis Before Tonsillotomy and Adenoidectomy: A Prospective Randomized Trial.Health science reports · 2025Article
- Post-hypnotic safety suggestion improves stress coping with long-lasting effects.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Hypnotherapy for agoraphobia-Feasibility and efficacy investigated in a pilot study.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Study on the influence mechanism of perceived benefits on unsafe behavioral decision-making based on ERPs and EROs.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Feeling Safe With Hypnosis: Eliciting Positive Feelings During a Special State of Consciousness.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Hypnotic suggestions of safety improve well-being in non-invasively ventilated patients in the intensive care unit.Intensive care medicine · 2021Article
- Shared cognitive mechanisms of hypnotizability with executive functioning and information salience.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Hypnotic suggestions of safety reduce neuronal signals of delay discounting.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
When a stimulus is important, the corresponding brain responses increase, especially the P300 brain response. This is true for all kinds of important stimuli, also monetary rewards. In our study, we developed a hypnotic suggestion to reduce the subjective importance of monetary rewards. As successful suggestions do not contain negations, we suggested participants to feel safe during hypnosis instead of suggesting that money is not important anymore. We predicted lower P300 amplitudes when participants feel safe during hypnosis. We tested 24 highly suggestible participants playing a risk game in 2 conditions with monetary rewards while we measured their EEG brain responses. In the safety condition, we induced a hypnotic state and suggested that participants feel safe. In the control condition, participants played the risk game without hypnosis. Here we show that participants felt significantly safer in the safety condition and showed significantly lower P300 amplitudes to monetary rewards. Risk behavior did not differ significantly between conditions. Our results are important for substance use disorders, as decreased P300 responses to substance-related stimuli are associated with less craving and better abstinence. Therefore, we conclude that suggestions to feel safe during hypnosis might work as a treatment for individuals with substance use disorders.
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