evidence: Space between Stimulus and Response: Creating Critical Research Paradises [...] Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor who became an eminent US social psychologist, shared numerous significant social psychology concepts, one of which is the space between stimulus and response. In Frankl’s words, "Between the stimulus and response, there is a space. The space between stimulus and response is an evergreen concept that can be generative across all facets of life. In this blog post, I discuss the application of the space between stimulus and response in qualitative research. For me, this concept means that between the time of an event or experience—and herein I focus on the relational research moments of interviews and focus groups, so the events are speech acts and interactions—and your reaction to what you hear (or what you think you hear), and then how you respond to that, there is a space—a literal space in time that you can use in generative ways if you consciously let it be there and learn how to critically engage it.