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Journal Articles

  • Munoz, L.R., Thomas, S.P., Sebach, A.M., Gibbons, M., & Neal, A.M. (2023). Experiences of Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP)-prepared nurses choosing to pursue a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. Journal of Professional Nursing, 46, 168-178. DOI: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2023.03.003
  • Thomas, S. P., & Sohn, B. K. (2023). From Uncomfortable Squirm to Self-Discovery: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Bracketing Experience. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 22. https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069231191635
  • Greenberg, K. H., Sohn, B. K., Moret, L. (2022). Life in an ungraded course. College Teaching. https://doi.org/10.1080/87567555.2022.2046998
    Roach, A., Thomas, S. P., Abdoli, S., Wright, M., & Yates, A. L. (2020). Kids helping kids: The lived experience of adolescents who support friends with mental health needs. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing. DOI:10.1111/jcp.12299
  • Hemphill, J. C. (2020). A qualitative exploration of perspectives of strength among trauma-exposed women living within homelessness. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 41 (9), 773-784.
  • Thomas, S. P. (2020). Resolving tensions in phenomenological research interviewing. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 00, 1-8. DOI: 10.1111/jan.14597
  • Sohn, B. K. (2020). Coming to appreciate diversity: Ontological change through student-student relationships. Journal of Transformative Education. https://doi.org/10.1177/1541344620940811
  • Umberger, R., & Thomas, S.P. (2019). Survivor but not fully recovered: The lived experience after one year of surviving sepsis. Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 38, 317-327. DOI: 10.1097/DCC.0000000000000381
  • Thomas, S.P. (2018). Finding inspiration from the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty for the practice of psychiatric-mental health nursing. Archives of Psychiatric Nursing, 32, 373-378. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2017-54431-001
  • Sohn, B. K., Greenberg, K. H., Thomas, S. P., Pollio, H. R. (2017). Hearing the voices of students and teachers: A phenomenological approach to educational research. Qualitative Research in Education, 6(2), 121-148. https://hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/qre/article/view/2374
  • Sohn, B. K. (2017). Review: Phenomenology as qualitative research: A critical analysis. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 38(6), 528-529. https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2017.1322428
  • Sohn, B. K. (2017). Phenomenology and qualitative data analysis software (QDAS): A careful reconciliation. Forum: Qualitative Social Research 18(1). http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1701142
  • Sohn, B. K., Plaas, K., Franklin, K. A., Dellard, T. K., Murphy, B., Greenberg, K. H., Greenberg, N. B., Pollio, H. R., Thomas, S. P. (2016). Freedom to connect: The existential dimension of transformative learning in a graduate seminar. The Journal of Transformative Education, 14(3), 178-199. Doi: 10.1177/1541344616631425
  • Oreshkina, M. & Greenberg, K. (2011). Teacher-student relationships: the meaning of teachers’ experience working with underachieving students. Journal of Pedagogy. 1 (2): pp. 52-66.
  • Thomas, S., Thompson, C., Pollio, H., Greenberg, K., Conwill, W. Sall, A., Klukken, G. Davis, M., & Dias-Bowie, Y. (2007). Experiences of struggling African American students at a predominantly white university. Research in the Schools, 14 (2), 1 – 17.
  • Pollio, H., Graves, R., & Arfken, M. (2005). Qualitative research methods. In F. Leong & J. Austin (Eds.), The psychology research handbook: A guide for graduate students and research assistants . Thousand Oaks: Sage.
  • Davis, M., Dias-Bowie, Y., Greenberg, K., Klukken, G., Pollio, H., Thomas, S., & Thompson, C. (2004). “A fly in the buttermilk”: descriptions of university life by successful African-American undergraduate students at a predominately white southeastern university. The Journal of Higher Education. Vol. 75 No. 4, 420-445.
  • Pollio, H.R. & Heaps, C. (2004). Themes in the Human Experience of Nature. Psychological Reports, 94(1), 35-47.
  • Kracker, J., & Pollio, H. R. (2003). The experience of libraries across time: Thematic analysis of undergradutate recollections of library experiences. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 54(12), 1104-1116.
  • Pollio, H. R., Anderson, J., Levasseur, P. & Thweatt, M. (2003). Cultural Meanings of Nature: An Analysis of Contemporary Motion Pictures. Journal of Psychology, 137(2), 117-132.
  • Thomas, S. (2003). Men’s Anger: A Phenomenological Exploration of Its Meaning in a Middle-Class Sample of American Men. Psychology of Men and Masculinity, 4(2), 163-175.
  • McCurry, A. & Thomas, S. (2002). Spouses’ Experiences in Heart Transplantation. Western Journal of Nursing Research, 24(2), 180-194.
  • Pollio, H. R. (2002). Implicit Double-Function Terms in Shakespeare’s Use of Setting: A Brief Meta-Metaphorical Note. Metaphor and Symbol, 17(2), 141-144.
  • Williamson, W. P., Pollio, H.R., & Hood, R. Jr. (2000). A Phenomenological Analysis of the Anointing Among Religious Serpent Handlers. International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 10(4), 221-240.
  • Corts, D. P. & Pollio, H. R. (1999). Spontaneous Production of Figurative Language and Gesture in College Lectures. Metaphor and Symbol, 14(2), 81-100.
  • Pollio, H.R. & Swanson, C. (1995). A Behavioral and Phenomenological Analysis of Audience Reactions to Comic Performance. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research, 8(1), 5-28.
  • Golledge, C. & Pollio, H.R. (1995). Themes in the Experience of Language. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 24(2), 79-100.
  • Thompson, C., Pollio, H.R. & Locander, W. (1994). The Spoken and the Unspoken: A Hermeneutic Approach to Understanding the Cultural Viewpoints that Underlie Consumers’ Expressed Meanings. Journal of Consumer Research, 21(3), 432-452.
  • Ross, L. & Pollio, H.R. (1992). Metaphors of Death: A Thematic Analysis of Personal Meanings. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 23(4), 291-307.
  • Thompson, C., Locander, W. & Pollio, H.R. (1990). The Lived Meaning of Free Choice: An Existential-Phenomenological Description of Everyday Consumer Experiences of Contemporary Married Women. Journal of Consumer Research, 17(3), 346-361.
  • Thompson, C., Locander, W. & Pollio, H.R. (1989). Putting Consumer Experience Back Into Consumer Research: The Philosophy and Method of Existential-Phenomenology. Journal of Consumer Research, 16(2), 133-146
  • Pollio, H.R., Humphreys, W.L. & Milton, O. (1989). Components of Contemporary College Grade Meanings. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 14(1), 77-91

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