If we hadn't gone to Dr. G.'s, we would have assumed that she was simply overtired, but now we had a different interpretative framework, one founded on fear.
There are (at least) two different kinds of interpretative projects one could engage in, each with its own set of lead questions.
Sermons that Turner heard as a youth probably were experiential--one that did not ground itself into a "literal" interpretative position on the text, but one which searches for a deeper embedded meaning beneath the text.
Two different material sets were developed for both the attentional and interpretative bias tests, one of which was used pre-intervention and one of which was used post-intervention.
This was not an interpretative skill; no one cared about what you thought you were doing.
But its enduring fascination, for everyone, comes from the tension between its obvious patterns and the interpretative possibilities that one can see.
The assertion that the Bible is to be read in a common sense fashion, as close to literally as possible, is not only itself merely one interpretative strategy among other strategies, it's also a fairly recent development in the history of interpretation.
One interpretative problem in these studies is that PTSD is often comorbid with depression (e.g., Breslau et al. 1991; Kessler et al. 1995; Shalev et al. 1998) so that it remains unclear whether the associations between attributional style and trauma reactions are due to PTSD or due to depression.
Wagner's interpretative licence on the podium was the catalyst for a debate that still rages today, between advocates of textual propriety on the one hand and those who see the score as the basis for creative exploration rather than literal translation – as if such a thing were even possible.
Four of the studies applied a Grounded Theory approach to analyse the data; four adopted a Content Analysis approach, one applied Interpretative Phenomenology (IP), and one Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA).
