Exploring Inner Experience: The descriptive experience sampling methodWritten for the psychologist, philosopher, and layperson interested in consciousness, Exploring Inner Experience provides a comprehensive introduction to the Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) method for obtaining accurate reports of inner experience. DES uses a beeper to cue participants to pay attention to their experience at precisely defined moments; participants are then interviewed to obtain high-fidelity accounts of their experience at those moments. Exploring Inner Experience shows (a) how DES uncovers previously unknown details of inner experience; (b) how the implications of this method affect our understanding of inner experience and the human condition more generally; (c) how DES avoids the traps that destroyed the introspections of the previous century; (d) why DES reports of inner experience should be considered reliable and valid; and (e) how to use the DES method. This book will be basic reading for all psychologists, philosophers, and students interested in consciousness, as well as anyone who is seriously concerned with understanding the human condition.(Series B) |
Contents
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Telling what we know | 31 |
Psychological sciences prescription for accurate reports about inner experience | 41 |
To beep or not to beep | 61 |
The Descriptive Experience Sampling procedure | 77 |
Transcript of a DES expositional interview | 93 |
How to do DES | 107 |
Reliability and validity of DES | 177 |
DES compared to other systems | 191 |
Everyday inner experience | 209 |
Implications of inner experience | 233 |
Idiographic science | 249 |
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