Comments on: Power of Suggestion

By: Will

Will — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 09:20:11 +0000

Hi Science Fairers,
Here’s some neat ideas.
1) Ask people to come closer… towards a big sealed jar on a table. Say that there is a pungent smell in the jar, but that different people will pick up on different scents depending on their olfactory sensitivity. To some it will smell like rotten eggs… to others a kind of toxic smell. Then open the lid, and keep offering suggestions that it might take a while for the smell to reach them. Ask people to put up their hand when they can smell something. Hopefully, someone towards the front will soon raise their hand… if they do, it will contribute to the suggestive force to those behind. (Of course, there is nothing in the jar).
2) If doing a speech or presentation, say that in a moment you’re going to ask a random volunteer to come up to the front, where you’re going to ask them some tricky questions. Then, without speaking, look around the room, pensively, as if searching for the right person. Look everyone in the eye if you can. Then after a few moments, say that you were just kidding – but ask people to put their hand up who felt a horrible feeling inside. A cruel little trick – but through suggestion, by installing the imagination of being out at the front, you changed their body state.
Will

By: lucas

lucas — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:50:26 +0000

im doing a science fair project on this as well and i have come up with a way to test it.

1. get your teacher to help you
2. the teacher will hand out a board game (any game works) and says, “class, i am giving this game to my son/nephew for his birthday and i want you guys to try it out and tell me if you find it fun or not, i have already tried it and i loved the game”
3. at the end have your teacher to tally how many people liked it and how many did not
4. are they less likely to enjoy it if she/he had said that he/her had found it boring? and did they enjoy it more because she said that she enjoyed it?

there are tons of variations on this if you dont like this exact experiment

By: J****

J**** — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:09:40 +0000

I am also doing my science fair project on the power of suggestion. And Will, the science fair project is a big project students do in school (most from 9-12 grade). You research a topic and do an experiment on it. Maddi, if it helps mine is going to be with food. I don’t want to give to much away though because it is a competition at some point.

By: Amber

Amber — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:44:11 +0000

A persuasive speech on power of suggestion, to my speech class…

By: Amber

Amber — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:42:48 +0000

I am doing a persuasive speech. I am trying to figure out what I can use as a visual aid to make my point stronger. Any suggestions?

By: Will

Will — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:01:39 +0000

Can one of you let me know what this science fair is, and what you are testing, and maybe I can help!?

By: Maddi

Maddi — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:31:00 +0000

Hi,
I also am doing a science fair project on the power of suggestion, but I’m not sure how i should test it. Any suggestions?

By: Meeo

Meeo — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:56:42 +0000

I am about ot do that for my science fair if u have any other ideas respond back to this

By: Hannah

Hannah — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:08:57 +0000

im doing a project on how the power of suggestions effects peoples taste ie the word diet im so glad 4 your website but has there been any times when your experiments didn’t work? pls reply to hlk0703@gmail.com

By: Victoria R.

Victoria R. — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:00:07 +0000

I am doing ‘the power of suggestion’ project aswell.
I never new how powerful the suggestion is….
Do you have any suggestions on what I should have them look at to remember? I saw how on other sites I was on that using a poster of faces would be the best. I am still not exactly clear on what to get though…

Thanks..