This week’s forum will focus on the importance of Visual Research to Qualitative Studies. Whether a tool of assessment, a stimulus to trigger responses or a means of displaying cognitive models and presenting results, images have many uses in psychology (Bagnoli, 2009; Frith, Riley, Archer & Gleeson, 2005). Traditionally, visual methods have involved coding or counting responses or behaviors. More recently, interest has grown in performing qualitative research which focuses on the visual images themselves in order to explore participants experiences and meaning-making (Frith et al., 2005) Include 2 references
