Humanistic psychologists are particularly interested in people’s subjective experience of life and the meaning people give to those experiences. This focus means that qualitative techniques — in this case, interviews — are often used by humanistic researchers.
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow, two humanistic psychologists, famously said that we humans have a drive to make ourselves the best we can be. This drives us towards psychological growth, i.e. the development of our sense of self — who we are. This is very different from those theories that see our personality as being relatively fixed throughout time and over a variety of situations.
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