Hello, Michael. I changed my mind.  Here's a nutshell description. The Emprint Method is an elicitation-by-interview method that attempts to create a description of a behavior, in words, that is sufficient, once understood, to become a pattern of behavior, for someone, when that behavior description is future-paced for the person, through hypnosis or auto-hypnosis. The method succeeds in allowing someone to elicit, in an interview, how to perform a behavior that someone else has performed, that someone who is being interviewed. Possible applications of the method include, 1.  interviewing potential exemplars to determine if the behavior the exemplar performs is one whose internal processing correlates (emprint method evaluations) are worth potentially adopting.  The purpose of such an interview is distinct from an interview where one attempts to understand what results an exemplar achieves through her performance (of the target behavior), UNLESS those results are considered to be the experience of evaluating [what?], as part of performing the target behavior.  The purpose of the interview is to understand some of how the person thinks, and to then determine if the exemplar's behavior is worth modeling, assuming that through modeling, one would also model how the other person thinks. 2.  self-eliciting a behavior, after one has modeled it by using the WITW modeling method. I don't place particular value in understanding behaviors via the emprint method, particularly in discourse that discusses how people actually think.  I think the authors of "The Emprint Method" wanted a means to create target behavior descriptions that could be used to help oneself or another adopt the target behavior - a bit like brainwashing, but without someone else forcing your choice on you.  That is different than creating a description that actually describes how someone does something.  Since modeling by the WITW method does not rely on the initial creation of a behavior description, it stands in contrast to the Emprint Method.  A practical example of application [1] is: - a ballerina that you think, when you watch her dance, moves effortlessly.  You think it must be great to have such a lithe body, so you ask her what she pays attention to when she's standing on her toes.  To your surprise, she tells you about how she evaluates the pain in her toes, and you discover that she performs evaluations that let her ignore the severe toe pain, as she dances.  You find out that the ballerina desperately needs orthopedic surgery, and knows it.  You use that information to help you decide whether to model this ballerina, or any ballerina.   -nj