Ernest Hilgard and his colleagues hypnotized participants to believe they would not experience pain when they placed one hand in ice water.Participants were asked to press a response button with the other hand if they felt any pain.What did Hilgard and his colleagues find?

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Hilgard and his colleagues found that participants said they felt no pain, but they pressed the button to indicate some pain. This is known as the "hidden observer" phenomenon and suggests that hypnotic suggestion can create a dissociation between the conscious experience of pain and the ability to respond to it.

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