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PANEL A: INCREASING COMPLEXITY IN QUALITATIVE
RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY
“I like hearing about other people and I like thinking about it myself”:
The Use of Groups in Qualitative Psychology Research
Maya Lavie-Ajayi, Beng Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Much of contemporary research in psychology tends to suffer from over-
individualistic approach. to move away from narrow perception of
human being without social, cultural and economic context we should
consider all aspects of the research process: our research questions, the
data we collect and our methodology. In this paper I will use examples
from my own research to argue for the importance of using group
interviews in qualitative psychology research. Group interview, as a
research method, can support an exploration, by the researcher and
the research participants, of people’s experiences within their social
context. Bringing people together in research can create a sphere for
participants to learn from each other. hearing others and being heard
is often experienced as an empowering situation that develops one’s
own understanding. It can highlight the similarities between experiences
and by that highlight the social and even political aspect of the
private experience.
Memory and Interviewing in Narrative Research
Marco Gemignani, Duquesne University, USA
Challenging the assumption that, during interviews, memories are simply
accessed, I first explore the practice of considering memory as an
assumed cognitive function and then I highlight the social, cultural,
and political location of memories. telling one’s past to an interviewer
entails ongoing and parallel dialogues with processes of public
remembrance and silencing. that is, the act of remembering entails a
social contention between the remembered and the forgotten, which
frequently develops along the lines of (re)membering. the exploration
of the links among the remembered, the remember-able, memberships,
and the forgotten/silenced is likely to inform the collection of data,
both because they shape the contexts of the interview and because
they inform the memories of the interviewees’ personal, social, and
cultural identities.
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