Contents -- Preface -- 1 Developing a Science of Human Meanings and Consciousness -- 2 Lessons Learned from Psychophysics -- 3 Psychophysical Methods and Human Meanings -- 4 Describing, Characterizing, and Understanding Phenomenal Experience -- 5 Merging the Qualitative with the Quantitative: The Roles of Desire and Expectation in Emotions -- 6 Choosing -- 7 Human Pain and Suffering -- 8 Second Pain: A Model for Explaining a Conscious Experience? -- 9 Mysterious and Not-So-Mysterious Mechanisms of Placebo Responses -- 10 Hypnotic and Other Background States of Consciousness -- 11 Using Experiential Paradigms to Extend Science and Help Solve Human Problems -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Color Plates.