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The lived experience of remembering a ‘good’ interview Micro-phenomenology applied to itself

Heimann, Katrin, Bess Boelsbjerg, Hanne, Allen, Chris, van Beek, Martijn, Suhr, Christian, Lubbert, Annika and Petitmengin, Claire 2023. The lived experience of remembering a ‘good’ interview Micro-phenomenology applied to itself. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 22 , pp. 217-245. 10.1007/s11097-022-09844-4

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Abstract

Micro-phenomenology is an interview and analysis method for investigating subjective experience. As a research tool, it provides detailed descriptions of brief moments of any type of subjective experience and offers techniques for systematically comparing them. In this article, we use an auto-ethnographic approach to present and explore the method. The reader is invited to observe a dialogue between two authors that illustrates and comments on the planning, conducting and analysis of a pilot series of five micro-phenomenological interviews. All these interviews asked experienced researchers of micro-phenomenology to browse their memories to identify one successful and one challenging instance of working with micro-phenomenology. The interview then focused on this reflective task to investigate whether applying the method to itself might reveal quality criteria. The article starts by presenting a shortened and edited version of the first of these interviews. Keeping the dialogue format, we then outline the micro-phenomenological analysis procedure by demonstrating its application to part of this data and corresponding passages of other interviews. We focus on one unexpected finding: interviewed researchers judge the quality of an interview in part based on a connection or contact between interviewer and interviewee. We discuss these results in the context of the means and intentions of the method and suggest avenues for future research.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Psychology
Publisher: Springer Verlag
ISSN: 1568-7759
Funders: Wellcome Trust
Date of First Compliant Deposit: 10 August 2022
Date of Acceptance: 11 July 2022
Last Modified: 04 Sep 2023 17:13
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/151859

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