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Looking into Self-Exploration Attitudes and Ways of Constructing Experience

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  • Ioana Laura Popa

    (University of Vienna)

  • Urban Kordes

    (University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Education)

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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.

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  • Ioana Laura Popa & Urban Kordes, 2014. "Looking into Self-Exploration Attitudes and Ways of Constructing Experience," Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, Croatian Interdisciplinary Society Provider Homepage: http://indecs.eu, vol. 12(4), pages 314-322.
    • Handle: RePEc:zna:indecs:v:12:y:2014:i:4:p:314-322
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    Keywords

    empirical phenomenology; explicative interview; constructing experiences; personal epistemology;
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    JEL classification:

    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
    • Z19 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Other

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