. Thinking, feeling, doing . be will serve to give a general idea of one of ourmethods. What I cannot do here is, to give an accountof the extended researches on suggestion and hallucina-tion that have been carried on in my laboratory during the last two have found theway to measure inso many candle-power a suggestiveeffect of sight, wecan produce hallu-cinations of tonesthat are equal in in-tensity to real toneswhose physical en-ergy can be meas-ured, we can cause Producing an Hallucination of Warmth. « 1t . a person by walkinga certain number of feet to see a sp
. Thinking, feeling, doing . be will serve to give a general idea of one of ourmethods. What I cannot do here is, to give an accountof the extended researches on suggestion and hallucina-tion that have been carried on in my laboratory during the last two have found theway to measure inso many candle-power a suggestiveeffect of sight, wecan produce hallu-cinations of tonesthat are equal in in-tensity to real toneswhose physical en-ergy can be meas-ured, we can cause Producing an Hallucination of Warmth. « 1t . a person by walkinga certain number of feet to see a spot where there isnone. These experiments have been ably and patientlyexecuted under mydirections by one ofmy pupils, but it isthe rule for such in-vestigations to ap-pear first in the Studies from theYale Psychological QOOOOOOLaboratory. 50 jj &o 05 70 15 80 Here is a Series Fig. 198. Blocks for Measuring the Effect ofr 1111 a Suggestion of Size. 01 round blocks painted black ; in appearance they are all just alike, but. o 55 o 55 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 Suggestion and Expectation. 267 in weight they are different. This block D is a very big Making the ex-block ; pick out that one of the series which appears of penmenl-the same weight as the big one, when lifted betweenthumb and finger. You know nothing about the blocksexcept that, to the best of your belief, the big one is ofthe same weight as the medium-sized one. Put them onthe scales ; down goes the big one, you judged it to bemuch lighter than it was. Try it over again as often asyou please ; always the same result. By means of thescales find the medium one that weighs exactly the sameas the large one. Then compare them by lifting ; noth-ing but the incontestable evidence of the scales willmake you believe they are the same. After beingfamiliar with the experiment for over a year I still findthe effect almost as strong as at first. But how much? It is not sufficient to show that there Howmuch?is a suggestive effect, you must
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