Ayanna Stewart

Senior Project Advisor

Anna Ciao

Document Type

Project

Publication Date

Spring 2023

Keywords

Psychology, Research, Research Impacts, Feminist Methodology

Abstract

This paper focuses on how research impacts the people who are conducting the research. There is literature surrounding how a researcher's biases impact their results, but how are researchers impacted personally by the scientific method of collecting data? This paper weaves together Western and feminist scientific methods in order to understand what happens to a researcher when they conduct research.

This study interviewed four research assistants who were part of the Eating and Body Image lab at Western Washington University. Using their responses to questions, an analysis of the impacts of research and subjectivity was conducted. Results showed that participants were all impacted by the research that they conducted. The analysis showed that there is a balance when conducting research between finding a topic that you are passionate about and also having personal experience with that topic in order to gain maximum positive benefits from conducting research.

Department

Psychology

Type

Text

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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