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The brain's habit of confusing a good suggestion with a memory it actually owns.

means The degree to which a person's beliefs or memories can be shaped by suggestion from others or from leading questions.

from From suggest, tracing back to Latin suggerere — 'to carry or bring up from below,' from sub- ('under') plus gerere ('to carry, to bear'). The original image is of something smuggled upward into the mind without announcing itself — exactly how a planted idea slips in and gets mistaken for one's own. The '-ibility' ending, from Latin -ibilis, turns it into a measurable capacity: not just that suggestion happens, but how susceptible a given mind is to it.

hypnosis link
Core trait that makes hypnosis work at all
memory risk
Leading questions can implant false memories convincingly
age factor
Children and elderly test higher on average
placebo cousin
Same mechanism partly explains placebo effects working
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