Exploring Inner Experience: The Descriptive Experience Sampling Method

Exploring Inner Experience Advances in Consciousness Research Advances in Consciousness Research provides a forum for scholars from different scientific disciplines and fields of knowledge who study consciousness in its multifaceted aspects. Thus the Series will include (but not be limited to) the various areas of cognitive science, including cognitive psychology, linguistics, brain science and philosophy. The orientation of the Series is toward developing new interdisciplinary and integrative approaches for the investigation, description and theory of consciousness, as well as the practical consequences of this research for the individual and society. Editor Maxim I. Stamenov Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Editorial Board David Chalmers Steven Macknik Australian National University Barrow Neurological Institute Gordon G. Globus George Mandler University of California at Irvine University of California at San Diego Ray Jackendoff Susana Martinez-Conde Brandeis University Barrow Neurological Institute Christof Koch John R. Searle California Institute of Technology University of California at Berkeley Stephen Kosslyn Petra Stoerig Harvard University Universität Düsseldorf Earl Mac Cormac Duke University Volume 64 Exploring Inner Experience: The descriptive experience sampling method by Russell T. Hurlburt and Christopher L. Heavey Exploring Inner Experience The descriptive experience sampling method Russell T. Hurlburt Christopher L. Heavey University of Nevada, Las Vegas John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam / Philadelphia 8 TM The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences – Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ansi z39.48-1984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Russell T. Hurlburt Exploring Inner Experience : The descriptive experience sampling method / Russell T. Hurlburt and Christopher L. Heavey. p. cm. (Advances in Consciousness Research, issn 1381–589X ; v. 64) Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Introspection. I. Heavy, Christopher L. II. Title. III. Series. BF316.H87 2006 153--dc22 isbn 90 272 5200 9 (Hb; alk. paper) 2006040657 © 2006 – John Benjamins B.V. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher. John Benjamins Publishing Co. · P.O. Box 36224 · 1020 me Amsterdam · The Netherlands John Benjamins North America · P.O. Box 27519 · Philadelphia pa 19118-0519 · usa JB[v.20020404] Prn:6/12/2005; 16:52 F: AICR64CO.tex / p.1 (49-113) Table of contents Preface chapter 1 Inner experience vii 1 chapter 2 Amy’s inner experience 13 chapter 3 Telling what we know: Describing inner experience 31 chapter 4 Psychological science’s prescription for accurate reports about inner experience with Todd Seibert 41 chapter 5 To beep or not to beep 61 chapter 6 The descriptive experience sampling procedure 77 chapter 7 Transcript of a DES expositional interview 93 chapter 8 How to do DES: The moment of the beep 107 chapter 9 A sampling journal: Learning about DES Sarah A. Akhter & RTH 133 JB[v.20020404] Prn:6/12/2005; 16:52 F: AICR64CO.tex / p.2 (113-135) Table of contents chapter 10 Bracketing presuppositions 151 chapter 11 Reliability and validity of DES 177 chapter 12 DES co