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Emotional Sensibility: Exploring the Methodological and Ethical Implications of Research Participants’ Emotions

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WENDY PEARLMAN*
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Wendy Pearlman, Professor of Political Science, Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, United States, pearlman@northwestern.edu.
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Abstract

Although political science increasingly investigates emotions as variables, it often ignores emotions’ larger significance due to their inherence in research with human subjects. Integrating emotions into conversations on methods and ethics, I build on the term “ethnographic sensibility” to conceptualize an “emotional sensibility” that seeks to glean the emotional experiences of people who participate in research. Methodologically, emotional sensibility sharpens attention to how participants’ emotions are data, influence other data, and affect future data collection. Ethically, it supplements Institutional Review Boards’ rationalist emphasis on information and cognitive capacity with appreciation for how emotions infuse consent, risk, and benefit. It thereby encourages thinking not only about emotional harm but also about emotions apart from harm and about emotional harms apart from trauma and vulnerability. I operationalize emotional sensibility by tracking four dimensions of research that affect participants’ emotions: the content of research, the context in which research occurs, researchers’ positionality, and researchers’ conduct.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 117 , Issue 4 , November 2023 , pp. 1241 - 1254
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