Time, Experience, and Descriptive Experience Sampling

摘要: Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES) rightly encourages concrete, experience-near description of specific psychological states. But it needs to be further connected and opened up, both the search for converging methods objective corroborating evidence reports subjective experience, more temporally- extended sequences in experience. I criticize DES deliberately eradicating dynamics conscious experience by providing only a flash snapshot 'the last undisturbed moment before beep'. This restriction rules out certain significant experiential phenomena, renders kind 'personal truth' revealed strangely thin, neglecting fact that we are creatures whose present is often animated many distinctive ways our past. query dis- tinction between recalling reconstructing, re-examine parts two discussed Hurlburt Schwitzgebel. These exam- ples reveal rich cross-temporal interactions should encourage us explore, officially out, how kinaesthetic memory autobiographical respectively animate experi- ence. A slightly experience-sampling practice could take central place among other investigating