Abstract The present study examines cross-cultural differences in people’s concept of lying with regard to the question whether requires an agent say something they believe be false. While prominent philosophical views maintain that entails a person explicitly expresses believed-false claim, recent research suggests might also include certain kinds deception are communicated more indirectly. An...

We argue that inquiring about directly apprehended ("pristine") inner experience requires four overlapping methodological characteristics: effectively limiting investigation to specific, clearly identified moments; effectively limiting investigation to pristine experience; bracketing presuppositions; and iteratively acquiring skills. We compare and contrast Descriptive Experience Sampling (DES)...

INTRODUCTION Cultural congruence is the idea that to the extent a belief or experience is culturally shared it is not to feature in a diagnostic judgement, irrespective of its resemblance to psychiatric pathology. This rests on the argument that since deviation from norms is central to diagnosis, and since what counts as deviation is relative to context, assessing the degree of fit between ment...