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Why is it that raters differ in their assessment of subjective experience? Assuming that the rater's personal involvement or experience with the subject matter would determine the location of a diagnostic threshold, individual differences in rating would be indexed by the former. In this study, independent judges were asked to assess introspective reports for the appearance of an altered state of consciousness. The rater's own absorption score was determined, and a negative correlation (r = -0.48) was found between the number of instances of an altered state of consciousness (ASC) assessed and absorption score. Interrater disagreement regarding subjective experience may therefore be a function of variability in absorption.
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See also this more recent chapter: Glicksohn, J., & Berkovich-Ohana, A. (2012). Absorption, immersion, and consciousness. In J. Gackenbach (Ed.), Video game play and consciousness (pp. 83-99). New York: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
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A paper stemming from my doctorate. I had observed differences between raters concerning the report of an ASC by my participants (as reported in my paper published in PAID, 1991). I wondered whether individual differences here could be related to trait Absorption of the raters.
Professor Joseph Glicksohn
Bar-Ilan University
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This page is a summary of: Rating the Incidence of an Altered State of Consciousness as a Function of the Rater's Own Absorption Score, Imagination Cognition and Personality, March 1994, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.2190/p9e0-rd5g-gmx3-8hbf.
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