Personality styles and suggestibility: A differential approach

•Suggestibility relates to the MIPS-R Thinking Styles.•Suggestibility relates to some of the MIPS-R Behaving Styles.•Imaginative individuals are less suggestible.•Dutiful and cooperative individuals are more suggestible.•Suggestibility does not relate to the MIPS-R maladjustment scales.

This study addresses the relationship between personality styles measured with the Portuguese adaptation of the Millon Index of Personality Styles Revised – MIPS-R and interrogative suggestibility assessed by the Portuguese adaptation of the Gudjonsson Suggestibility Scale – GSS1. Hypotheses predicted individual differences in suggestibility and that these differences correspond to differences in individuals’ personality styles. The study was conducted with a sample of 258 individuals (Mage = 31.8 years, SD = 12.0). Results showed that there were individual differences in suggestibility and that these differences corresponded to certain personality characteristics, mainly related to the Thinking Styles and some Behaving Styles.