Journal: Region - Educational Research and Reviews DOI: 10.32629/rerr.v8i5.5490
Abstract
Psychological science often secures public accountability by observing persons from an external, third-person position. This enables comparison, but it can lose the phenomenon when the object of inquiry is lived experience itself. Oriental Psychology begins from being inside: bodily change, attention, meaning, relationship, and choice as they arise in the present situation. This article proposes a disciplined route from first-person experience to shareable evidence. Practice-derived concepts are translated into item families, ecological momentary prompts, behavioral indicators, and wearable signals. Cronbach's alpha is positioned as an early reliability checkpoint for whether items intended to represent one process covary; it is not proof of truth, unidimensionality, validity, or efficacy. AI dialogue can elicit time-near descriptions and preserve process sequences, while wearables add physiological and behavioral context. The proposed architecture evaluates coherence within scales, within persons over time, and across first-person, behavioral, relational, and physiological sources. It allows Oriental Psychology to retain its civilizational commitment to lived interiority while accepting public scrutiny, revision, and falsification. The aim is to turn long-standing practice into professionally recognizable knowledge without reducing experience to numbers alone.
Keywords
Oriental Psychology; first-person evidence; Cronbach's alpha; ecological momentary assessment; AI dialogue; wearable sensing; embodied knowing
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