Oakley and colleagues (2021) suggest that a classic scale – HGSHS:A, aiming to measure hypnotic suggestibility – can be used to measure direct verbal suggestibility (DVS). According to the authors, DVS is a trait that can be measured both with and without hypnosis. I find this initiative highly welcome. However, I wish to give several examples why it is time to develop entirely new scales instead. Rather than trying to explain more phenomena with a single scale or concept, researchers should take a cue from research that points to a far more nuanced picture of suggestibility than a construct like DVS allows. There may be no single, unified phenomenon that can be measured with a single scale. The old, time-tested scales should be treated neither as sacred nor final. They require up-to-date, critical analysis of what exactly they measure, with an eye to how they can be further improved.

Oakley 及其同事 (2021) 建议经典量表 - HGSHS:A，旨在衡量催眠暗示性 - 可用于衡量直接口头暗示性(DVS)。这组作者说，DVS 是一种可以在有和没有催眠的情况下测量的特征。我觉得这个倡议非常受欢迎。但是，我想举几个例子，说明为什么现在是开发全新量表的时候了。与其试图用一个单一的尺度或概念来解释更多的现象，研究人员应该从研究中得到一个线索，该线索指向比 DVS 这样的结构所允许的更微妙的暗示性图片。可能没有单一的、统一的现象可以用单一的尺度来衡量。旧的、久经考验的天平不应被视为神圣的或最终的。他们需要对所测量的内容进行最新的批判性分析，并着眼于如何进一步改进。