2011
DOI: 10.1007/s12124-011-9171-x
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Toward Poetic Science

Abstract: This article is an extension of earlier discussion in the present journal regarding feelings in literature and, more broadly, the distinction between literary and scientific discourse. Valid though this distinction may be on some level, it is argued herein that it owes its very existence, in part, to a problematically narrow view of what constitutes science, one that not only eschews the life of feeling but that fails to abide by the primary obligation of the scientific endeavor-namely, to practice fidelity to… Show more

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“…I am sympathetic to this line of argumentation and have offered a similar view in some of my own work (e.g., Freeman, 2007Freeman, , 2011, suggesting that the manifest scientificity of much of modern psychological inquiry serves to conceal and even deform the phenomena rather than reveal them. In this respect, I have argued, much of modern psychology, having essentially mistaken its own scientistic encapsulations for Reality, is not scientific enough; and in order to be scientific e truly rather than falsely scientific, that is e it would have to move well beyond the dominant view.…”
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confidence: 84%
“…I am sympathetic to this line of argumentation and have offered a similar view in some of my own work (e.g., Freeman, 2007Freeman, , 2011, suggesting that the manifest scientificity of much of modern psychological inquiry serves to conceal and even deform the phenomena rather than reveal them. In this respect, I have argued, much of modern psychology, having essentially mistaken its own scientistic encapsulations for Reality, is not scientific enough; and in order to be scientific e truly rather than falsely scientific, that is e it would have to move well beyond the dominant view.…”
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confidence: 84%
“…Generally, these studies recruit a new participant sample, re-run an original study's procedures, and statistically test whether the new study's results "replicate" the original study's results by reaching statistical significance or showing a similar effect size. 4 Yet purely qualitative researchers often argue that their research is not meant to be replicable according to the rules and conventions of inferential statistics (e.g., Freeman, 2011;Rappaport, 2005). From that perspective, qualitative or MM researchers may justifiably wonder whether direct replication is relevant to their work.…”
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confidence: 99%
“…From this perspective, if there is any one abiding characteristic of individual personality it is that it is always in transition and emergent. This way of conceptualizing an individual is more ''faithful'' to individual personalities as they unfold during the life-course (see Freeman, 2011). If personality is emergent and novel, then in a concrete sense persons are unique from moment to moment.…”
Section: The Advantages Of a Process-centric Understanding Of Individmentioning
confidence: 99%