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Can feelings be enumerated?
Author(s) -
Back Kurt W.,
Bourque Linda Brookover
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830150603
Subject(s) - feeling , comprehension , psychology , transcendental number , ambivalence , social psychology , epistemology , computer science , philosophy , programming language
Doubt has been expressed as to whether deep emotional experiences can be assessed only in intensive clinical interviews or whether they can be studied in survey interviews on representative samples as well. A series of studies on transcendental experiences shows that these experiences can be investigated in surveys. The results meet the criteria of comprehension and scalability. Positive responses about having the experiences increased over a six‐year span. This change seems to be due partly to increased acceptability of these experiences, and partly to methodological reasons, namely increased confidence of the interviewers in asking the questions.