Phenomenological reduction and quantitative psychology: a conflict in the study of self-consciousness.
Front Psychol January 5, 2026 Hu Ren
This paper explores the methodological tensions between quantitative psychology and phenomenological reduction in the study of self-consciousness. Quantitative psychology, historically modeled on the natural sciences, treats self-consciousness as a psychological attribute and operationalizes it through standardized scales. It emphasizes causal relationships between self-consciousness and other...