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SWASH Scoring Guide

This document provides the scoring guide for the Sussex-Waterloo Scale of Hypnotisability (SWASH) which is an objective scale used to measure hypnotic suggestibility. It lists 10 hypnotic suggestions and the criteria needed to pass each suggestion. A participant's objective score is the total number of passed suggestions, and their subjective score is the average rating given to each suggestion. An overall combined score can be calculated by taking the average of the objective and subjective scores.

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SWASH Scoring Guide

This document provides the scoring guide for the Sussex-Waterloo Scale of Hypnotisability (SWASH) which is an objective scale used to measure hypnotic suggestibility. It lists 10 hypnotic suggestions and the criteria needed to pass each suggestion. A participant's objective score is the total number of passed suggestions, and their subjective score is the average rating given to each suggestion. An overall combined score can be calculated by taking the average of the objective and subjective scores.

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Sussex-Waterloo Scale of Hypnotisability (SWASH) scoring guide

Objective scale scoring criteria (adapted from Bowers, 1998).

Suggestion Pass criteria

1. Hand lowering Circles A, indicating hand


lowered at least 6 inches in 10
seconds.

2. Moving hands together Circles A, indicating hands


were less than 6 inches apart
after 10 seconds.

3. Mosquito hallucination Circles A, indicating an


outward acknowledgment of
the effect.

4. Taste hallucination Circles at least "vague" on both


(sweet and sour) tastes and
circles "yes," indicating facial
movement at least once; or
circles at least "vague" on one
taste and "strong" on the other.

5. Arm rigidity Circles A, indicating arm bent


less than 2 inches in 10
seconds.

6. Arm immobilization Circles A, indicating arm


raised less than 1 inch in 10
seconds.

7. Music hallucination Circles A, indicating right hand


raised in response to hearing
music.

8. Negative visual Records colours of exactly two


hallucination balls at the time of the
suggestion (on back of form).

9. Amnesia Recalls three or fewer items


before suggestion is removed
and recalls three or more new
items after suggestion is
removed (in response booklet).

10. Posthypnotic Actually draws tree in response


suggestion booklet
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Scoring

Objective scores (1-10): the sum of passed items on the objective scale scoring criteria.

Subjective scores (1-5): the mean of the subjective scale ratings for each item.

Note: Subjective scale responses for item 4 (Taste) and item 10 (Posthypnotic suggestion)

are each generated from the combination of two responses which require processing prior to

generating an overall subjective score. The subjective score for item 4 is the mean of the

responses to the (a)‘sour’ and (b)‘sweet’ sub-scales. The subjective score for item 10 is the

geometric mean (the square root of the product) of the responses to the (a) ‘urge’ and (b)

‘amnesia’ sub-scales.

A combined score can be generated by taking the mean of the objective and subjective scores

for a given participant (with the subjective score multiplied by two to be on a 0-10 scale)

(e.g., Lush, Naish & Dienes, 2016).

References

Bowers, K. S. (1998). Waterloo-Stanford Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form C:

Manual and Response Booklet. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental

Hypnosis, 46, 250-268.

Lush, P., Naish, P., & Dienes, Z. (2016). Metacognition of intentions in mindfulness and

hypnosis. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2016(1), niw007

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