Editing Suggestibility (section)

{{Short description|Inclination to accept the suggestions of others}}
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'''Suggestibility''' is the quality of being inclined to accept and act on the suggestions of others. One may fill in gaps in certain [[Memory|memories]] with false information given by another when recalling a scenario or moment. Suggestibility uses cues to distort [[Recall (memory)|recollection]]: when the subject has been persistently told something about a past event, his or her memory of the event conforms to the repeated message.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://psychlopedia.wikispaces.com/Suggestibility|title=Psychlopedia – Suggestibility|website=psychlopedia.wikispaces.com|access-date=2016-05-17}}</ref>

A person experiencing intense [[emotion]]s tends to be more receptive to ideas and therefore more suggestible. Generally, suggestibility decreases as age increases. However, [[psychologist]]s have found that individual levels of [[self-esteem]] and [[assertiveness]] can make some people more suggestible than others; this finding led to the concept of a spectrum of suggestibility.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hooper|first1=Victoria-Rose|last2=Chou|first2=Shihning|last3=Browne|first3=Kevin D.|date=November 2016|title=A systematic review on the relationship between self-esteem and interrogative suggestibility|journal=The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology|language=en|volume=27|issue=6|pages=761–785|doi=10.1080/14789949.2016.1201844|s2cid=148344372|issn=1478-9949|url=http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34066/1/Hooper%20Chou%20Browne%20SysRev%20JFPP%20revision%20submitted.pdf}}</ref>