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The recent literature reflects two general trends in the study of consciousness: trends that parallel the structuralist-functionalist camps of introspection during the early 20th century. Like the functionalists, one approach to consciousness attempts to investigate the stream of consciousness (Pope & Singer, 1978a,b) and its relationship to personality measures and related variables. The other approach, paralleling that of the structuralists, attempts to investigate the structure of states of consciousness; states that are hypothesized to be of different intensities (Singer, cited in Zinberg, 1977) or patterns (Tart, 1975) from other states of consciousness.
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Pekala, R.J. (1991). Phenomenological Perspectives on Consciousness. In: Quantifying Consciousness. Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0629-8_3
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