🎙 Interviewing strategies

👍 DOs:

Interviewer

  • get ✅ Informed consent
  • adapt to the participants personality
  • empathize, don’t identify
  • understand, don’t judge
  • explain, don’t bias

👎 DONTs

Interviewer

  • Halo effect: easy pattern → conclusion
  • Misinterpretation
  • Self-Fulfilling prophecies

Participant

  • Hawthorne effect: Behavior induced by observation
  • Social-acceptability bias: Providing socially acceptable answers only
  • Trying to please