My research has approached subjective experience from several different directions.

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In The Well-Being of Narratives, my psychology thesis, I analyzed interviews with people who had histories of drug use. I examined whether the form of a life story — particularly its coherence and genre — could tell us something about the narrator’s psychological well-being. The work also drew on narrative identity and agency.

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In an earlier social-psychology paper on the first stages of drug use, I examined what happens around the first experience of using a substance: social influence, opportunity, motivation, and the subjective meaning of the experience. I became particularly interested in what qualitative and narrative accounts can reveal that behavioural descriptions alone cannot.

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My developmental-psychology work involved a study with 6–7-year-old children participating in a mindfulness intervention. The research combined executive-function testing with the Trier Social Stress Test for Children and cortisol measurement, asking how psychological intervention and stress responses could be studied together.

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In my published work on meditation and hypnosis, I examined how the two practices can — and cannot — be distinguished, including the roles of suggestion, attention, expectation, subjective experience, and altered states of consciousness.

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These studies address different questions. What connects them is my interest in conscious experience and in the processes that can organize, influence, regulate, or alter it.