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The Inter-View Compass: Empowered Story-Telling by Means of Cognition,

Drama, and Analytical Psychology

Darin Ford, MASouthern Methodist University

John L. Garcia, EdDTexas State University

2010 NCDA Global ConferenceM.D. Ford & J.L. Garcia

Cognitive Science

Recency

Primacy

Affective elements

*Memory of an event is more important than the experience


Cognition & Memory

Rosy projection: the tendency for people to anticipate

events as more favorable and positive than they describe the experience at the time of its occurrence

Dampening: the tendency for people to minimize the

favorability or pleasure of events they are currently experiencing

Rosy retrospection: the tendency for people to

remember and recollect events they experience more fondly and positively than they evaluated them to be at the time of their occurrence

LFR Job InterviewMethodR


LF

a s t ( M e m o r y )

i r s t ( M e m o r y )

e - m i n d e r s ( S t o r i e s )

Analytical Psychology

Mandala•Sanskrit for “Circle”

•The most conservative of natural “Form”

•Symbol of “Wholeness” and Individuation (Jung)

•Symbol of “Self” (Jung)


West

Logic

NorthAssertive

EastIntuition

SouthReceptive 2010 NCDA Global ConferenceM.D. Ford & J.L. Garcia

Inter-View Compass

Story-Telling


Inter-View Story-Telling


IntervieweeInterviewer

Psychodramaemploys guided dramatic action to examine problems or issues raised by an individual (psychodrama) or a group (sociodrama).


Actors


Roles

Inter-viewInterviewer(s)Interviewee


Audience•Expectations (introjects)


Props

The Tribal Fire


Warm Up

•Non-Verbal•Verbal


Enactment

•Auxiliary egos•Mirroring•Role reversal


West

Logic

NorthAssertive

EastIntuition

SouthReceptive


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Inter-View Compass

LFR Job Interview Method

L a s t ( M e m o r y )

F i r s t ( M e m o r y )

R e - m i n d e r s ( S t o r i e s )


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