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Describing one’s subjective experience in the second person: An interview method for the science of consciousness

Claire Petitmengin · 2006

Evidence
Description of a practice
Kind
Journal article
peer-reviewed
Method
Description of an interview method for eliciting detailed accounts of subjective experience
Published
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 5(3–4), 229–269

Background

Earlier work that helps think about the practice, without being about it.

A methodological paper explains how guided interviews can bring out details of lived experience and discusses how to assess the resulting accounts.

What it doesn’t show

This is a method and an argument about access to experience, not a test of a relational practice. Its proposed checks do not remove every risk of memory error, interviewer influence or reconstruction.

Summary based on the abstract and the full text’s procedural and validation sections.

Directions that build on it

  1. What being met is like

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    What do people actually experience in the moments they describe as being seen or met?

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Cite

Petitmengin, C. (2006). Describing one’s subjective experience in the second person: An interview method for the science of consciousness. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 5(3–4), 229–269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-006-9022-2