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== Phenomenological Attitude ==
== Contemporary Phenomenological Methods ==
• And when you feel this sensation of panic, what do you feel?
• If I had this feeling, what would I feel?
• How do you know that you feelm this sesnation of panic?
• * And when you feel this sensation of panic, what do you feel?* If I had this feeling, what would I feel?* How do you know that you feelm this sesnation of panic?* Is this feeling located somehwere? Does it have size? Is it moving or stable? How intense is it? An interveiw of a temporally short experience of this sort could talk an hour.
1. # Random beep in participants' natural environments, several times a day. 2. # Notes about the ongoing experience at (i.e., just before) the moment of the beep. This is an "experience sample" taken immdetiately after the beep 3. # Expositional interview about the xperience samples within a day
Further reading online sources:
→Descriptive Experience Sampling
The information displayed below at present is based on a talk of Ema Demsar at ASSC 25. Many thanks for this talk to Emma. Everyone is invited to improve upon this short overview.
The phenomenological attitude is opposed to the natural attitude in which consciousness is experienced. It requires work and special methods to attain it, requiring systematiciity and guidance in self-observation, which is often dialogical in nature. This methods that make use of this dialogical nature are also called ''second-person'' methods.
The following list is not complete.
* Experience sampling<br />: A simple methodology that consists, for example, of questions posed to the subject durirng experiments, such as "How aware were you when peceiving a probe?".
* Systematic introspection
* Descriptive experience sampling method (DES)<br />: Cf. below.
* Micro-phenomenology<br />: Cf. below.
Methods can be compared along various dimensions, e.g. ''thick'' vs. ''thin'' methodologies or according to the specificity of subjective experiences.
* Recalling its sensory and affective dimentions.
* Repetition
3. Describing experience along the diachronic and synchronic dimensions
Question asked by the interviewer:
An interview of a temporally short experience of this sort could talk an hour.
== Descriptive Experience Sampling ==
Participants carry arround a beeper during their day.
DES questions are different from those of micro-phenomenology. They are non-leading, open-ended, interested in what was present "at the footlights of awareness".
Participants often discover that their pre-conceptions about their own experiences are mistaken.
Sources: Hurlburt (1970, 1990, 2011)
