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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.
== Contemporary Phenomenological Methods ==
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* Recalling its sensory and affective dimentions.
* Repetition
 
3. Describing experience along the diachronic and synchronic dimensions
Question asked by the interviewer:
• 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.
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.
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
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.
 
Further reading online sources:
Sources: Hurlburt (1970, 1990, 2011)

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