Interviews as interactional data

Questioning Children: Interactional Evidence of Implicit Bias in Medical Interviews

chologists has shown that implicit race bias can influence an individual’s behavior (Amodio and Devine 2006; Dovidio, Kawakami, and Gaertner 2002; Fazio and Olson 2003). Implicit bias has been suggested to be more prevalent but also less subject to cognitive control than explicit racism (Amodio, Harmon-Jones, and Devine 2003; Dovidio et al. 1997). However, relatively little is known about how i...

Focus group interviews as a data collecting strategy.

BACKGROUND Focus group interviews are a method for collecting qualitative data and have enjoyed a surge in popularity in health care research over the last 20 years. However, the literature on this method is ambiguous in relation to the size, constitution, purpose and execution of focus groups. AIM The aim of this article is to explore some of the methodological issues arising from using focu...

Self-disclosure as a situated interactional practice.

Self-disclosure has long been a site of research in clinical and social psychology, where it suffers the fate of many interactional phenomena. It is operationalized (typically, into a set of bald statements of varying intimacy), and measured as a dependent variable (subject to the operation of factors like the age or gender of the discloser, the degree of acquaintance with the disclosed-to reci...

Learner Articulation as Interactional Achievement: Studying the Conversation of Gesture

Surprise As an Interactional Achievement: Reaction Tokens in Conversation*

when encountering “unexpectedness” (Reizenzein 2000) or “expectancy violations” (Scherer, Zentner, and Stern 2004)—is commonly regarded as a fundamental human emotion (Ortony and Turner 1990; Strongman 2003). Like other “basic” or “primary” emotions—happiness, sadness, fear, anger, and disgust—it is typically inferred from characteristic facial expressions, bodily postures, and vocalizations (T...