Roosevelt alludes to the need for leaders to take responsibility for their decisions, impulses, feelings, reactions, and mistakes.
Sometimes they fail to take into account a woman's unique perspective and instead become narratives about male feelings, reactions, and growth.
Emotions, feelings and gut-feeling reactions are often used as shortcuts.
To prevent bias in data collection, interviewers reflected on their interview technique, feelings, reactions and biases during interviews.
Cortazzi divides stories into three narrative categories: the event, which is describing what happened or a series of events that happened; the experience which includes the feelings, reactions, images and meanings that the participant ascribes to the recounted events; and the evaluation, which is the broader interpretation of what happened and its significance.
Cooked stories include your feelings, reactions, inner thoughts, colorful descriptions, other people's reactions, comparisons/analogies, etc. Let's take the previous example and really add a bunch of ingredients to it: "Last week I was riding a bus to work, and out of the corner of my eye I saw this massive shape moving towards me…I honestly think the sun was blocked for a second.
What am I feeling in reaction to what my child is doing?
They are often more effective at conveying a feeling or reaction than text.
This isn't to say you may not have emotions or feelings in reaction to someone else's words or actions, but ultimately, your feelings are yours.
