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- Title
HANDWRITING AND FORGERY UNDER HYPNOSIS.
- Authors
Lacy, George J.
- Abstract
The article reports that the effects of hypnosis on handwriting forms an interesting but virtually untouched field of research. To the handwriting expert certain phases of such experiments can reveal valuable information. In particular two distinct problems are of interest: (1) The effect of hypnosis in forgery, and (2) the influence of suggested age while in a hypnotic trance on the natural writing of the subject. In order to arrive at some conclusions to questions raised by these problems the writer has begun a series of experiments in which he is now making a report of work in progress. In the past two decades, several experiments have been conducted in American universities in which the abilities of hypnotized persons have been compared with the abilities of the same persons in the normal state. It has been shown that certain abilities are greater in the trance than in the normal state; for example, psychologists have found that some persons, while in the trance, can recall memories of their childhood which are not available to them in their waking state.
- Subjects
HYPNOTISM; ALTERED states of consciousness; BEHAVIORAL scientists; GRAPHOLOGY; FORGERY; FORGERY of manuscripts; TRANCE
- Publication
Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology (08852731), 1944, Vol 34, Issue 5, p338
- ISSN
0885-2731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1137459