Individual differences in conscious experience / edited by Robert G. Kunzendorf, Benjamin Wallace.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kunzendorf, Robert G.

Wallace, Benjamin.

Series:

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 20.

Advances in consciousness research ; v. 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness.

Subconsciousness.

Altered states of consciousness.

Physical Description:

xii, 411 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; [Great Britain] : John Benjamins, c2000.

Summary:

Individual Differences in Conscious Experience is intended for readers with philosophical, psychological, or clinical interests in subjective experience. It addresses some difficult but important issues in the study of consciousness, subconsciousness, and self-consciousness. The book's fourteen chapters are written by renowned, pioneering researchers who, collectively, have published more than fifty books and more than one thousand journal articles. The editors' introductory chapter frames the book's subtext: that mind-brain theories embodying the constraints of individual differences in subjective experience should be given greater credence than nomothetic theories ignoring those constraints. The next five chapters describe research and theory pertaining to individual differences in conscious sensations - specifically, individual differences in pain perception, phantom limbs, gustatory sensations, and mental imagery. Then, two succeeding chapters focus on individual differences in subconsciousness. The final six chapters address individual differences in altered states of self-consciousness - dreams, hypnotic phenomena, and various clinical syndromes.(Series B).

Contents:

INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN CONSCIOUS EXPERIENCE

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Dedication

Table of Contents

Preface

Individual Differences in Subjective Experience

PART I: Individual Defferences in Consciousness

How We Hurt: A Constructivist Framework for Understanding Individual Differences in Pain

Individual Differences in the Consciousness of Phantom Limbs

Individual Differences in Bitter Taste: Dietary Implications

Individual Differences in Visual Imagination Imagery

Daydreaming Characteristics Across the Life-Span: Age Dierences and Seven To Twenty Year Longitudinal Changes

PART II: Individual Differences in Subconsciousness

Individual Differences in Subtle Awareness and Levels of Awareness: Olfaction as a Model System

Individual Differences in Implicit Learning Implications for the Evolution of Consciousness

PART III: Individual Differences in Self-Consciousness

Thought People and Dream People: Individual Differences On the Waking to Dreaming Continuum

Varieties of Lucid Dreaming Experience

Individual Differences in Patterns of Hypnotic Experience Across Low and High Hypnotically Susceptible Individuals

Biological Rhythms and Individual Differences in Consciousness

Personality Variations in Autobiographical Memories, Self-Representations, and Daydreaming

Individual Differences in Self-Conscious Source Monitoring: Theoretical, Experimental, and Clinical Considerations

Author Index

Subject Index

the series ADVANCES IN CONSCIOUSNESS RESEARCH.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612163982

9781282163980

1282163981

9789027299932

9027299935

OCLC:

70763899