@article {Wagstaff:1977:0301-2212:389,
title = "GOAL-DIRECTED FANTASY, THE EXPERIENCE OF NONVOLITION, AND COMPLIANCE",
journal = "Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal",
parent_itemid = "infobike://sbp/sbp",
publishercode ="sbp",
year = "1977",
volume = "5",
number = "2",
publication date ="1977-01-01T00:00:00",
pages = "389-393",
itemtype = "ARTICLE",
issn = "0301-2212",
url = "https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/sbp/sbp/1977/00000005/00000002/art00028",
doi = "doi:10.2224/sbp.1977.5.2.389",
author = "Wagstaff, Graham F.",
abstract = "In a study of suggested arm levitation, Spanos and Barber (1972) concluded that subjects tended to experience suggestions as more non-volitional when instructed to engage in goal-directed fantasy. An attempt was made to test the viability of an interpretation of their findings in terms
of compliance. A group of 48 subjects was instructed to simulate a response to an arm levitation suggestion. The suggestion was worded in one of four different ways, varying from a direct command to an instruction to engage in goal-directed fantasy. The simulated responses were similar to
those found by Spanos and Barber; the arm levitation suggestion was reported as more involuntary when the subjects were asked to engage in a goal-directed fantasy. After the simulation part of the experiment, subjects were asked to report what they actually experienced. The trend for more
non volition with goal-directed fantasy was significantly diminished in these non-simulated reports.It was concluded that the results of Spanos and Barber are readily explicable in terms of compliance, and thus the immediate clinical applicability of the concept of goal-directed fantasy
may be limited.",
}