Heimann Katrin, Boelsbjerg Hanne Bess, Allen Chris, van Beek Martijn, Suhr Christian, Lübbert Annika, Petitmengin Claire
Interacting Minds Center, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany.
Phenomenol Cogn Sci. 2023;22(1):217-245. doi: 10.1007/s11097-022-09844-4. Epub 2022 Sep 10.
Micro-phenomenology is an interview and analysis method for investigating subjective experience. As a research tool, it provides detailed descriptions of brief moments of any type of subjective experience and offers techniques for systematically comparing them. In this article, we use an auto-ethnographic approach to present and explore the method. The reader is invited to observe a dialogue between two authors that illustrates and comments on the planning, conducting and analysis of a pilot series of five micro-phenomenological interviews. All these interviews asked experienced researchers of micro-phenomenology to browse their memories to identify one successful and one challenging instance of working with micro-phenomenology. The interview then focused on this reflective task to investigate whether applying the method to itself might reveal quality criteria. The article starts by presenting a shortened and edited version of the first of these interviews. Keeping the dialogue format, we then outline the micro-phenomenological analysis procedure by demonstrating its application to part of this data and corresponding passages of other interviews. We focus on one unexpected finding: interviewed researchers judge the quality of an interview in part based on a connection or contact between interviewer and interviewee. We discuss these results in the context of the means and intentions of the method and suggest avenues for future research.
微观现象学是一种用于探究主观体验的访谈与分析方法。作为一种研究工具，它能对任何类型主观体验的短暂时刻进行详细描述，并提供系统比较这些体验的技巧。在本文中，我们采用自我民族志方法来呈现和探索该方法。邀请读者观察两位作者之间的对话，该对话阐释并评论了一系列由五个微观现象学访谈组成的试点项目的规划、实施及分析过程。所有这些访谈都要求有经验的微观现象学研究者回顾自身记忆，以找出运用微观现象学的一个成功实例和一个具有挑战性的实例。随后，访谈聚焦于这一反思任务，以探究将该方法应用于自身是否能揭示质量标准。本文开篇呈现了这些访谈中的第一个访谈的精简编辑版本。我们保持对话形式，接着通过展示其在部分数据及其他访谈相应段落中的应用，概述微观现象学的分析程序。我们聚焦于一个意外发现：接受访谈的研究者部分地基于访谈者与被访谈者之间的联系或接触来评判访谈的质量。我们在该方法的手段和意图背景下讨论这些结果，并提出未来研究的方向。
