Opening the black box: Think Aloud as a method to study the spontaneous stream of consciousness.
Consciousness and Cognition February 1, 2025 Anusha Garg, Shivang Shelat, Madeleine E. Gross et al. 13 citations
Asking participants to Think Aloud is a common method for studying conscious experience, but it remains unclear whether this approach alters thought qualities-such as meta-awareness, rate of topic shifts, or the content of thoughts in task-absent conditions. To investigate this, we conducted two studies comparing thinking aloud to thinking silently. In Study 1, 111 participants alternated...