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The methodologies of Husserlian and contemporary phenomenological psychology are compared. The Husscrlian project was an a priori, descriptive, intuitive inquiiy into the universal, necessary structures of intentional phenomena. Contemporary phenomenological psychology, examined here through a review of contemporary psychological articles and methodological sources, includes four types of methods: empirical, hermencutic, traditional and experimental. Phenomenological psychology continues to attempt to describe the essences of experiences. However, in contrast to the Husserlian phase, the current stage of the movement is characterized by the inclusion of the experience of a group of subjects in addition to that of the researcher, the use of hermeneulic rather than descriptive methods, existentialism as an interpretive guide, and the use of empirical as well as a priori evidence for the gcneralizability of descriptions. Kssentialism as a central tenet of phenomenological psychology is criticized in light of anthropological evidence.

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Five kinds of data were gathered on various groups of college females who differ in their approach to and success in solving problems. Ss high and low on intuitiveness and on success, as defined here, were studied in some detail Usual measures of intellectual capacity and standard personality measures discriminated only slightly between the groups, but more detailed study of the personality scales, interviews, and self-concept materials revealed these groups to have clearly distinguishable patterns of personality characteristics.