On investigating inner experience: Contrasting Moore & Schwitzgebel and Brouwers et al

Autor: Russell T. Hurlburt
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Consciousness and Cognition. 63:146-150
ISSN: 1053-8100
DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2018.06.018
Popis: Moore and Schwitzgebel (this issue) reported that readers report innerly speak the text about 59% of the time. Brouwers et al. (2018) reported that readers innerly speak the text only about 3% of the time. I use this huge discrepancy as a case study to discuss important issues in the investigation of inner experience, including: the training of participants; ambiguity in the time being considered; ambiguity in the phenomenon; the desirability of investigating the phenomenon itself, not merely its frequency; bracketing presuppositions; the advantages and disadvantages of large and small sample sizes; influence by the investigator; and the slide from phenomena to reports of phenomena.
Databáze: OpenAIRE