Personality: Developments in the Study of Private Experience

Singer, Jerome L.; Kolligian, John

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“…This is partly due to biases concerning the reliability and validity of introspection concerning consciousness that spanned the prior century and how those biases impeded research into subjective or phenomenological experience. As psychological science sought to free itself from the methodological hegemony of behaviorism, various theoreticians and researchers (Ericsson & Simon, 1980;Klinger, 1978;Kukla, 1983;Singer & Kolligian, 1987) near the end of the 20th century critiqued the vacuous edifice erected by the behaviorists to bar consciousness as a legitimate area of psychological research. They found this approach lacking and suggested how subjective experience could be reliably and validly assessed.…”

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Hypnosis as a “State of Consciousness”: How Quantifying the Mind Can Help Us Better Understand Hypnosis

Pekala

2015

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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Hypnosis as a “State of Consciousness”: How Quantifying the Mind Can Help Us Better Understand Hypnosis

Pekala

2015

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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“…In his 1987 article with J. Kolligian (Singer & Kolligian, 1987) Singer reviewed the interface between personality, private experience, and cognitive psychology. Because his approach is deemed to be what sdentists in the 1990s will be exploring in terms of personality and subjective experience, his article will be briefly reviewed.…”

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“…But when asked to describe, not the reasons (the why), but the content (the what) of their subjective experience, people are much more accurate, as Ericsson and Simon (1980), Lieberman (1979), and Singer and Kolligian (1987) have shown. Lieberman's summary of the literature has indicated that although phenomenological assessment can sometimes be misleading or wrong, the classical and modern literature of introspective research has shown that such "data can be highly reliable and useful, helping not only to predict specific behavior, but to discover fundamental principles of learning and performance (e.g., Weber's law, and the role of imagery in verbal memory)" (1979, p. 332).…”

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“…Thus, this approach presents a methodology for quantifying, diagraming, and statistically assessing: (1) various schemas (Singer & Kolligian, 1987), processing units (Rumelhart, Hinton, & Mc-Clelland, 1986) or subsystems of consciousness (Tart, 1977); (2) states and altered states of consciousness (Tart, 1975); and also (3) hypnoidal states of consciousness (Pekala & Nagler, 1989).…”

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Quantifying Consciousness

Pekala

1991

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All rights reservedNo part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher To my parents, John and Susan Pekala PrefaceThis book presents an approach to quantifying consciousness and its various states. It represents over ten years of work in developing, testing, and researching the use of relatively simple self-report questionnaires in the retrospective assessment of subjective or phenomenological experience. While the simplicity of the method allows for subjective experience to be reliably and validly assessed across various short stimulus conditions, the flexibility of the approach allows the cognitive psychologist, consciousness researcher, and mental health professional to quantify and statistically assess the phenomenological variables associated with various stimulus conditions, altered-state induction techniques, and clinical procedures.The methodology allows the cognitive psychologist and mental health professional to comprehensively quantify the structures and patterns of subjective experience dealing with imagery, attention, affect, volitional control, internal dialogue, and so forth to determine how these phenomenological structures might covary during such stimulus conditions as free association, a sexual fantasy, creative problem solving, or a panic attack. It allows for various phenomenological processes to be reported, quantified, and statistically assessed in a rather comprehensive fashion that should help shed greater understanding on the nature of mind or consciousness.The methodology also allows for states of consciousness associated with hypnosis, progressive relaxation, biofeedback, drug-intoxicated states, shamanistic trances, psi-related experiences, and various other altered-state induction procedures to be not only accurately measured, vii viii Preface but also statistically assessed and visually displayed. Hence, it provides a heretofore unavailable phenomenological methodology for mapping and diagraming the structures and patterns of consciousness and identity, discrete, and altered states of consciousness (Tart, 1975).The approach espoused in this book can be useful not only to those individuals interested in quantifying and mapping the terrain of inner space, but to psychologists, psychiatrists, other mental health professionals, artificial intelligence researchers, computer scientists, anthropologists, and related individuals interested in how the mind processes, stores, and retrieves phenomenological data and organizes and structures those data into states and altered states of consciousness. Byasking subjects what they experience during varlous stimulus conditions, the researcher or clinician can determine how the mind processes phenomenological information and compare this information with neurological, psychological, electrophysiological, and/or c1inical data.The book is divided into four parts: Backg...

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“…Among researchers in both fields, consensus is now growing that personality and social psychology have indeed moved closer together over the past years (Ajzen, 1987;Singer and Kolligian, 1987). Marked disagreement, however, exists on the issue of whether this convergence is desirable and profitable for either or both of the parties involved.…”

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Personality and social psychology: towards a synthesis

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Personality: Developments in the Study of Private Experience

Cited by 80 publications

References 108 publications

Hypnosis as a “State of Consciousness”: How Quantifying the Mind Can Help Us Better Understand Hypnosis

Hypnosis as a “State of Consciousness”: How Quantifying the Mind Can Help Us Better Understand Hypnosis

Quantifying Consciousness

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