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Abstract: People have, to varying degrees, the ability to shape their subjective experience and to remain unaware that they are doing so. Historically, stable trait differences in this ability have been primarily investigated through direct verbal imaginative suggestions in the context of ‘hypnosis’. However, phenomenological control does not require imaginative suggestion or this specific social context and can be employed to pursue personal goals in a variety of situations. This talk presents some recent evidence supporting the proposal that phenomenological control can be employed to generate changes in experience in psychological experiments (e.g., to meet the social goal of being a ‘good participant’) and elsewhere (e.g., personal evidence of the apparent reality of one’s spiritual beliefs).
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