A study is presented on the rise of qualitative research in psychology over the 20th century. The incidence of quali-tative research as indicated by several search terms (i.e., "qualitative research, " "grounded theory, " "discourse analy*, " "empirical phenomenological, " and "phenomeno-logical psychology") was traced through the PsycINFO and Dissertation Abstracts International databases. It was found that, with the exception of the search terms having to do with phenomenology, records containing these search terms were basically non-existent until the 1980s, when there was a sharp rise that intensified in the 1990s. The PsycINFO records were sorted according to (1) whether they came from psychology or other social and health sci-ence disciplines; (2) region of origin; (3) the types of doc-
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