Russell T. Hurlburt, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-5030
Voice: (702) 895-0194 ... Fax: (702) 895-0195
Email: russ@unlv.nevada.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Professional Interests

Exploring Inner Experience
Teaching Introductory Statistics

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Selected Descriptive Experience Sampling Papers


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Hurlburt, R. T., Heavey, C. L., Lapping-Carr, L., Krumm, A. E., Moynihan, S. A., Kaneshiro, C., Brouwers, V. P., Turner II, D. K., & Kelsey, J. M. (2022). Measuring the frequency of inner-experience characteristics. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 559-571. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691621990379. Penultimate version.

Krumm, A. E., & Hurlburt, R. T. (2021). A complete, unabridged, 'pre-registered' descriptive experience sampling investigation: The case of Lena. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. Sharedit.

Kaneshiro, C., & Hurlburt, R. T. (2020). Cleaving to the moment, cleaving to experience, bracketing presuppositions, and the iterative method. Constructivist Foundations, 15(3), 251-253. Penultimate version.

Heavey, C. L., Moynihan, S. A., Brouwers, V. P., Lapping-Carr, L., Krumm, A. E., Kelsey, J. M., Turner II, D. K., & Hurlburt, R. T. (2019). Measuring the frequency of inner-experience characteristics by self-report: The Nevada Inner Experience Questionnaire. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 2615. Open access version.

Hurlburt, R. T., & Heavey, C. L. (2018). Inner speaking as pristine inner experience. In P. Langland-Hassan & A. Vicente (Eds.), Inner speech: New voices (pp. 168-196). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Penultimate version.

Fernyhough, C. P., Alderson-Day, B., Hurlburt, R. T., & Kühn, S. (2018). Investigating multiple streams of consciousness: Using Descriptive Experience Sampling to explore internally and externally directed streams of thought. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 12, 494. Open access version.

Hurlburt, R. T. (2018). On investigating inner experience: Contrasting Moore & Schwitzgebel and Brouwers et al. Consciousness and Cognition, 63, 146-150. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T. (2018). Pristine experience, the feeling of veracity, iteration, and the bracketing of presuppositions. Constructivist Foundations, 13(2), 114-117. Penultimate version.

Brouwers, V. P., Heavey, C. L., Lapping-Carr, L., Moynihan, S., Kelsey, J., & Hurlburt, R. T. (2018). Pristine inner experience while silent reading: It’s not silent speaking of the text. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 25(3-4), 29-54. Penultimate version.

Dickens, Y. L., Van Raalte, J. L., & Hurlburt, R. T. (2018). On investigating self-talk: A Descriptive Experience Sampling study of inner experience during golf performance. The Sport Psychologist, 32, 66-73. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R.T., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C.P. & Kühn, S. (2017). Response: Commentary: Can inner experience be apprehended in high fidelity? Examining brain activation and experience from multiple perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(628). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00628. Open access version.

Hurlburt, R.T., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C.P. & Kühn, S. (2017). Can inner experience be apprehended in high fidelity? Examining brain activation and experience from multiple perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(43). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00043. Open access version.

Heavey, C. L., Lefforge, N. L., Lapping-Carr, L., & Hurlburt, R. T. (2017). Mixed emotions: Toward a phenomenology of blended and multiple feelings. Emotion Review, 9, 105-110. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T. (2017). Descriptive Experience Sampling. In M. Velmans & S. Schneider (Eds.), Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, 2nd ed. Malden, MA: Blackwell. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T., Alderson-Day, B., Kühn, S., & Fernyhough, C. (2016). Exploring the ecological validity of thinking on demand: Neural correlates of elicited vs. spontaneously occurring inner speech. PLoS-ONE, 11(2): e0147932. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0147932. Open access version.

Hurlburt, R. T., Alderson-Day, B., Fernyhough, C. P., & Kühn, S. (2015). What goes on in the resting state? A qualitative glimpse into resting-state experience in the scanner. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, article 1535, 1-16. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01535. Open access version.

Hurlburt, R. T., & Heavey, C. L. (2015). Investigating pristine inner experience: Implications for experience sampling and questionnaires. Consciousness and Cognition, 31, 148-159. Penultimate version.

Kühn, S., Fernyhough, C., Alderson-Day, B., & Hurlburt, R. T. (2014). Inner experience in the scanner: Can high fidelity apprehensions of inner experience be integrated with fMRI? Frontiers in Psychology: Cognitive Science, 5, article 1393, 1-8. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01393. Open access version.

Hurlburt, R. T., & Stuart, S. A. J. (2014). Grounding the science of inner experience in the apprehension of phenomena: A review of Consciousness and the Self: New Essays. American Journal of Psychology, 127, 253-260. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T., Heavey, C. L., & Kelsey, J. M. (2013). Toward a phenomenology of inner speaking. Consciousness and Cognition, 22, 1477-1494. Penultimate version.

Heavey, C. L., Hurlburt, R. T., & Lefforge, N. (2012). Toward a phenomenology of feelings. Emotion, 12(4), 763-777. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T. (2011). Descriptive Experience Sampling, the Explicitation Interview, and pristine experience: In response to Froese, Gould, & Seth.Journal of Consciousness Studies, 18(2), 65-78. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T. (2011). Nine clarifications of Descriptive Experience Sampling. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 18(1), 274-287. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T., & Schwitzgebel, E. (2011). Little or no experience outside of attention? Journal of Consciousness Studies, 18(1), 234-252. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T., & Schwitzgebel, E. (2011). Methodological pluralism, armchair introspection, and DES as the epistemic tribunal. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 18(1), 253-273. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T., & Schwitzgebel, E. (2011). Presuppositions and background assumptions. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 18(1), 206-233.Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T., & Raymond, N. (2011). Agency: A case study in bracketing presuppositions. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 18(1), 295-305. Penultimate version.

Jones-Forrester, S., & Hurlburt, R. T. (2011). Fragmented experience in bulimia-nervosa. In R. T. Hurlburt, Investigating pristine inner experience: Moments of truth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 28-48.

Heavey, C. L., Hurlburt, R. T., & Lefforge, N. (2010). Descriptive experience sampling: Exploring moments of inner experience. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 7, 345-368. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T. (2009). Iteratively apprehending pristine experience. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16(10-12), 156-188.

Hurlburt, R. T., Heavey, C. L., & Bensaheb, A. (2009). Sensory awareness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 16(10-12), 231-251.

Hurlburt, R. T. (2009). Descriptive experience sampling. In T. Baynes, A. Cleermans, & P. Wilken (Eds.), Oxford Companion to Consciousness, pp. 225-227. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T. (2009). Unsymbolized thinking, sensory awareness, and mindreading. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 32, 149-150. (doi:10.1017/S0140525X09000673.) Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T. & Akhter, S. A. (2008). Unsymbolized thinking is a clearly defined phenomenon: A reply to Persaud. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1376-1377. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2008.07.004. Penultimate version.

Hurlburt, R. T. & Akhter, S. A. (2008). Unsymbolized thinking. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1364-1374. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2008.03.021.

Heavey, C. L. & Hurlburt, R. T. (2008). The phenomena of inner experience. Consciousness and Cognition, doi:10.1016/j.concog.2007.12.006.

Hurlburt, R. T. & Akhter, S. A. (2006). The Descriptive Experience Sampling method. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 5, 271-301.

Hurlburt, R. T. & Knapp, T. K. (2006). Muensterberg in 1898, not Allport in 1937, introduced the terms 'idiographic'and 'nomothetic' to American psychology. Theory & Psychology, 16, 287-293.

Hurlburt, R. T. & Heavey, C. L. (2004). To beep or not to beep: Obtaining accurate reports about awareness. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 11, 113-128.

Hurlburt, R. T. & Heavey, C. L. (2002). Interobserver reliability of Descriptive Experience Sampling. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 26, 135-142.

Hurlburt, R. T., Koch, M., & Heavey, C. L. (2002). Descriptive Experience Sampling demonstrates the connection of thinking to externally observable behavior. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 26, 117-134.

Hurlburt, R. T., & Heavey, C. L. (2001). Telling what we know: describing inner experience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 400-403.

Hurlburt, R. T. (1997). Randomly sampling thinking in the natural environment. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 65, 941-949.

Hurlburt, R. T., Happe, F.,& Frith, U. (1994). Sampling the form of inner experience in three adults with Asperger syndrome. Psychological Medicine, 24, 385-395.

Doucette, S., & Hurlburt, R. T. (1993). Inner experience in bulimia. In R. T. Hurlburt, Sampling inner experience in disturbed affect. New York: Plenum, pp. 153-163.

Doucette, S., & Hurlburt, R. T. (1993). A bulimic junior hich school teacher. In R. T. Hurlburt, Sampling inner experience in disturbed affect. New York: Plenum, pp. 139-152.

Hurlburt, R. T. (1993). A bulimic operating-room nurse. In R. T. Hurlburt, Sampling inner experience in disturbed affect. New York: Plenum, pp. 123-138.















































































































































































Selected Descriptive Experience Sampling Book Reviews


Salon.com review
Journal of Consciousness Studies review
Journal of Phenomenological Psychology review
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Philosophical Psychology review
Psyche review
Mind review
TLS (Times Literary Supplement) review
Journal Of Scientific Exploration review
Metapsychology Online Reviews
Philosophy in Review
Psychology Today Blogs
MyMindOnBooks.com





































































































































































Teaching Introductory Statistics


Statistical reasoning is one of the modern educated person's fundamental skills: scientific, economic, political, and everyday decisions almost always rest on a statistical foundation. I've written the textbook Comprehending Behavioral Statistics (in its sixth edition for Fall, 2017) to provide an honest comprehension of this important material, making statistical concepts readily accessible without sacrificing statistical correctness.

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The sixth edition

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