An Introduction to Phenomenological Research in
Psychology: Historical, Conceptual, and Methodological Foundations

Churchill, Scott D.; Wertz, Frederick J.

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“…For this purpose, each individual's initial document was read and reread until the interviewee's perception of reality was felt. This empathic process enabled us to understand how each individual perceived reality (Churchill and Wertz 1985;Glaser and Strauss 1967, p. 101-103). Finally, 15 individual portraits, each two pages in length, were developed.…”

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The Role of Time in the Action of the Consumer

Bergadaà¹

1990

J CONSUM RES

273

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A phenomenological approach was used to study the temporal system of consumers, an important but neglected aspect of individual action and consumer behavior. Two patterns of temporal attitude with profoundly different implications for consumer behavior were identified: some individuals appear to live and act as if they are more subject to deterministic functioning in relation to their temporal orientation, while others appear subject to voluntaristic functioning. Different temporal orientations may induce different sorts of motivation, different plans, the consumption of different types of products, and different specific attitudes that elicit a certain organizational process in relation to products. B y explicitly ignoring time, or by simply regarding it as "another variable," the decision-making models of consumer research do not account for the way that individuals and societies view time and how this apprehension affects consumer choices. Time can have a multitude of meanings, such as, for example, ecological time (Braudel 1969), economic time (Becker 1965), social time (Merleau-Ponty 1962), individual time (Sartre 1956), ideal time (Augustine 1954), and so on.These "times" are perceived by the individual when planning actions, but their diversity does not lend itself easily to analysis (Hendriks and Peters 1986). Nevertheless, some attempts have been made to unite these different elements. Settle, Alreck, and Glasheen (1978) measured individuals' ability to remember their past and work out future plans, their perception of the passing of time, their skill in organizing and executing their plans chronologically, and their ability to wait for a reward. Holman (1980) developed a scale making possible the classification of individuals according to their awareness of the control (or lack of control) they have over their own future and their ability (or lack of ability) to anticipate the future. Gonzalez and Zimbardo (1985) defined seven different types of people by measuring temporal orientation and other variables, *Michelle M. Bergadaa is an associate professor at the Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, B.P. 105, 95021 Cergy-Pontoise Cedex, France. She gratefully acknowledges the intellectual support ofYvan Allaire, director of the dissertation that is the basis of this article, and also thanks Gilles Laurent, Corinne Faure, and Bernard Pras for their help on previous versions of the manuscript. The anonymous JCR reviewers are thanked for their constructive criticism and encouragement. Finally, the author wishes to thank the 15 persons who agreed to devote time for the interviews, without whom this research would not have been complete, 289 such as individual ways of deciding on and planning actions, degree of fatalism, hedonism, and so forth. Quantitative studies of this kind are sufficiently intriguing to make one want to discover the reasons for these attitudes, the way in which they manifest themselves, and their consequences for consumer behavior.To understand individuals' actions in...

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Role of Time in the Action of the Consumer

Bergadaà¹

1990

J CONSUM RES

273

197

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“…But his phenomenology is about ontology, not epistemology, and has nothing to say about method. This situation leaves phenomenological psychologists in the position, when referring to Dilthey's approach to hermeneutics, of emphasizing description more than understanding (see Churchill, 2000;Churchill & Richer, 2000;Churchill & Wertz, 2001), seemingly to make their method accord better with phenomenology. This tactic reverses the balance between the two activities seen in Dilthey's writings (Dilthey, 1996(Dilthey, , 2002a(Dilthey, , 2002b(Dilthey, , 2002c.…”

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“…The empirical-phenomenological method of phenomenological psychology is designed to describe the structures of lived experience (Churchill, 2000;Churchill & Richer, 2000;Churchill & Wertz, 2001). It is often portrayed by its users as having a hermeneutical element, although the connection with Dilthey's hermeneutics is played down.…”

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Methodical Hermeneutics and Humanistic Psychology

Rennie¹

2007

The Humanistic Psychologist

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In this article, it is argued that the engagement of hermeneutics is common to both the creation of theory in humanistic psychology and the conduct of qualitative research. Development of their theories by Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers serve as examples of the tacit use of methodical hermeneutics. With respect to qualitative research, the phenomenological psychological and grounded theory methods are connected with the concept of a human science approach to the social and health sciences, and are examined critically to expose the hermeneutic involvement in them. A call is put out for a meta-methodology of qualitative research based on the methodical type of hermeneutics. Benefits of such a methodology are suggested, especially enhanced integration of the theory and research in humanistic psychology.What came to be known as humanistic psychology originated in the 1950s in the interest of restoring to psychology the nature of what is involved in being a person. Psychology was seen to have reduced persons downward to unconscious drives and wishes, on the one hand, and to behaviors controlled by environmental contingencies, on the other. For the founders of humanistic psychology, these downward reductions deprived psychology of the full range of its subject matter. 2 To correct the reductions, the founders took into account cognition, emotion, feeling, will, morality, ethics, and aesthetics, as well as intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transpersonal relationships.

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“…I can't wait to return for a month in May.' BB has indeed entered her/his life-world (Churchill and Wertz, 1985), appropriated as 'my abode of choice', without a hint of alienation.…”

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Hotels as Ready-to-Hand Recreation: TripAdvisors Posting Potentiality-for-Being in Play

Wilson

2012

Tourist Studies

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Tourism's embracing by theory positioned phenomenology as eligible equipment (tool) for conceptualising interpretive processes disclosed in consumers reflecting on themselves as readers.With authoring audiences now emerging in participatory (or social) media, this paper considers if Heideggerian phenomenology -fore-grounding our 'fore-structuring' of generic understanding as a process and practicable achievement -can recover the immanent structures of travel writing online. Here this research question is directed at a single species of tourist weblogging, TripAdvisor. Phenomenology explores reflexive understanding, advisors' views of authoring and accommodation as affordance or tools for tourism. Do writers implicitly, for instance, aim at narratives equipped to resolve audience uncertainty, at evaluating accommodation as (to a greater or lesser degree) 'ready-to-hand' generic 'equipment' enabling occupants' 'potentiality-for-being' (Heidegger)? Phenomenology in its Heideggerian shaping holds we engage with 'entities' not only as (un)predictable, but primarily in terms of practices. Gazing inspects for use.

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An Introduction to Phenomenological Research in Psychology: Historical, Conceptual, and Methodological Foundations

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Methodical Hermeneutics and Humanistic Psychology

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