Experience Sampling

With the advent of mobile technology, experience sampling/ecological momentary assessment has taken a turn for the better. Whereas researchers had trouble with people back-filling data entries (i.e. they waited to the last minute to fill out information- they didn’t fill it out in the moment), mobile technology offered accountability and software process data (see Shiffman […]

With the FIFA World Cup Championship in the recent past, here is an experience sampling study that shows how last year’s Men’s World Cup actually improved a psychological measure called subjective well-being (SWB) in German spectators. SWB measures a variety of aspects of psychological flourishing. One aspect of flourishing is self-worth. Interestingly, identifying with a

Download PDF Studying people in everyday life has several names. While many of them are generally used interchangeably, each has a slightly different nuance. Here’s a list, and the characteristics, of each of them. Experience Sampling Methods (ESM) This name is the most common, oldest (coined in the 1970’s), and used in the narrowest sense.

What can we discover about happiness in everyday life? Researchers from the University of Cambridge set out to answer this question, using a smartphone app. The researchers used an app in which participants played a game that involved gambling with pretend money on a spinner game. As the participants played the game, the researchers asked

Facebook is a part of everyday life. Here’s how to use it to improve your life.   Stop using it. Ok, maybe not totally. But here’s why:   Researchers from University of Michigan studied young adults for 14 days, using a method called experience sampling, to see how their sense of happiness in the moment

This is Part 2 of a two-blog post. Final take-aways from Dr. Conner’s Experience Sampling are discussed. Last month, I attended the Annual Convention of the Association for Psychological Sciences in New York City. One of the conference highlights was a workshop by Dr. Tamlin Conner of the University of Otago in New Zealand. During the two-hour