suggestibility

You take that and mix it with a psychopath, a sociopath or someone suffering from mental illness and add in a dose of rage, the suggestibility is too high.

Common Sense 2007

In this respect, even when computers seem to get it right, they're not so much anticipating our desires as exploiting our suggestibility, which is really a marketing coup more than a technological one.

Technology Gets Personal Steven Zeitchik 2008

Hypnosis is based in a great deal on what is called suggestibility and imaginative involvement and as the article reports, it really is wonderful for stress relief and relaxation as well as hundreds of other issues.

Life of Brian: 2005

Hypnosis is based in a great deal on what is called suggestibility and imaginative involvement and as the article reports, it really is wonderful for stress relief and relaxation as well as hundreds of other issues.

Hypnosis for Relaxation . . . . . . check your stress at the door 2005

The normal variations themselves may go to a limit where they overlap the abnormal artificial product, that is, the suggestibility of many normal persons may reach a degree in which they accept beliefs hardly acceptable to other persons in mild hypnotic condition.

Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889

The degree of suggestibility, that is of willingness to yield to such propositions for action and of inability to resist them, is indeed different from man to man.

Psychology and Social Sanity Hugo M��nsterberg 1889

A second kind of suggestibility occurred among people who made some effort to check out the broadcast but who didn't have "adequate standards of judgment to make a reliable check on [their] interpretation;" for example, those who asked their neighbors whether they thought the broadcast was true.

Social Nutworking 2010

Charcot had affirmed the power, not only of physical traumatism, but even of psychic lesions -- of moral shocks -- to provoke its manifestations, but his sole contribution to the psychology of this psychic malady, -- and this was borrowed from the Nancy school, -- lay in the one word "suggestibility"; the nature and mechanism of this psychic process he left wholly unexplained.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism Havelock Ellis 1899

Given the suggestibility of footie folk it is impossible to underplay the significance of this apparently off-hand remark.

Football and spectacles: Players make passes for men who wear glasses | Harry Pearson 2011

Your suggestibility and general cluelessness reminds me of nothing more than the unfocused frustration and misappropriation of founding principles that characterizes the Teabagging Right.

Matthew Yglesias » The Strange Death of the Public Option 2010