Looking into Self-Exploration Attitudes and Ways of Constructing Experience

Ioana Laura Popa () and Urban Kordes
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Ioana Laura Popa: University of Vienna
Urban Kordes: University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Education

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, 2014, vol. 12, issue 4, 314-322

Abstract: Empirical phenomenology - study of lived subjective experience is the latest addition to the interdisciplinary efforts aiming at understanding the human mind. We present the research, which was originally aimed at investigating the experiences of Holotropic Breathwork, however, results of the analysis convinced us to move the focus of our interest to differences between individual ways of constructing experience. We have identified three types of personal epistemologies (i.e. ways of constructing the subjective experience) and found the correlation with individual attitudes towards self-exploration. The paper aims at providing a novel model with regard to how experience is constructed and expands the understanding of the limitations of the phenomenological interview techniques.

Keywords: empirical phenomenology; explicative interview; constructing experiences; personal epistemology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D83 D84 Z19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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