'Stream of consciousness' and 'ownership of thought' in indigenous people in central Australia.
The Journal of analytical psychology October 1, 2000 L Petchkovsky
Fifteen Central Australian Aboriginal adults (8 patients, 7 colleagues) were presented with a culturally modified version of Flavell's 'stream of consciousness' experiment (pictures of persons with empty or 'busy' thought-bubbles, and an invitation to assign a picture to the mental state of a second experimenter seen reading or sitting quietly). Only 4 people assigned the empty thought bubble...