“…The issue of methodological preferences was even operationalized in the form of the Profile of Individual Preferences of an Investigator (PIPB-80) in the study by Czesław S. Nosal (1986), and the proneness to use research and its results in professional practice and their positive evaluation, defined as research orientation, has long been regarded as a construct and a property significant in terms of labor professionalization (Bolin, Lee, GlenMaye, Yoon, 2012;Bonner & Sando, 2008;Peachey, Baller, & Schubert, 2018). We can also recall the notion of cognitive orientations (Juszczyk, 2013), research orientations in a theoretical and methodological sense (Silverman, 2015), individual epistemologies (Nosal, 1992;Royce & Mos, 1980), psychoepistemological styles (Desimpelaere, Sulas, Duriez, Hutsebaut, 1999), cogni-tive ecotypes (Błaszak, 2013), philosophical and methodological beliefs (Sheehan, Johnson, 2012), epistemological and ontological beliefs (Schraw, 2013), methodological awareness (Brzeziński, 1978;Spendel, 2005), methodological culture (Knyazheva, 2012;Pasikowski, 2014), attitudes towards methodology and science (Flakus, 2017;Papanastasiou, 2005;Povee & Roberts, 2014;Povee & Roberts, 2015), or the concept of private ontological orientations discussed above (Mudyń, 2007). This is probably only a proximal part of the semantic network in which the concept of individual methodological orientations shall be embedded.…”