How do adolescents experience anhedonia in daily life? Little research has been done in the area of anhedonia in daily life, and little research had been done examining depressive symptoms – such as anhedonia –

What are teenagers actually paying attention to when they do other things, and watch TV? A study used ecological momentary assessment (EMA)- a method that asks questions in the moment- to find out. “Hm? What?”

Everyone gives in to snack food cravings. What influences when we give into them? Researchers used ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to find this out. Specifically, researchers the University of Illinois at Chicago wanted to find

Ever want to know more about the voice inside your head? We’ll teach you one way, using a psychologist’s research method, called descriptive experience sampling. Cassandra Willyard is a writer for Discover Magazine. She was

Does mind wandering really make you unhappy? There seems to be quite a bit of research suggesting this is so. Some of the important research on the topic used experience sampling methodology (ESM). However, some

Have you been to a farmer’s market this year? If so, you might enjoy the mobile intervention that researchers from the University of Western Ontario, Michigan State University, Brescia University College, and Wilfrid Laurier University,

Fibromyalgia is a disorder in which a person generally has chronic musculoskeletal pain. Stress is thought to be a cause of fibromyalgia symptoms. However, music has been shown to alleviate both stress and pain. Does

As you start planning your study, you’ll want to think about your participants, and whether Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment is right for them. Here are a few characteristics you want (and don’t want) in experience

Experience sampling (or EMA) enables a more three-dimensional, life-like picture of the relationship between virtue and flourishing. Over the past several years a number of “virtues” have been positively related to a flourishing life—or, that

Imagine pulling down a white box from a metal shelf in an evidence room housing hundreds of other boxes just like it. For years, the case that the box contained evidence for was left unsolved,