What is your internal world really like? (with Russell Hurlburt)

If you had to give a detailed description of what flits through your mind, how good would you be at it? Might you be surprised at how many of your thoughts don’t involve language? Are your thoughts changed by paying attention to them? What does this have to do with getting surprised by a random beep and immediately writing down what you’re thinking? Join Eagleman this week in conversation with Russell Hurlburt, a clinical psychologist who developed a new method to probe inner life.

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More Information:

Hurlburt RT. Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Moments of Truth. Cambridge University Press. 2011.

Caracciolo M, Hurlburt RT. A passion for specificity: Confronting inner experience in literature and science. The Ohio State University Press; 2016.

Hurlburt R, Schwitzgebel E. Describing inner experience?: Proponent meets skeptic. Mit Press; 2011 Aug 19.

Hurlburt RT, Heavey CL. Exploring inner experience. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 2006.

Hurlburt RT. Sampling inner experience in disturbed affect. Springer Science & Business Media; 1993 Jun 30.

Hurlburt RT. Sampling normal and schizophrenic inner experience. Springer Science & Business Media; 2012 Dec 6.

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