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Context-aware experience sampling reveals the scale of variation in affective experience

Hoemann, K., Khan, Z., Feldman, M. J., Nielson, C., Devlin, M., Dy, J., Barrett, L. F., Wormwood, J. B., & Quigley, K. S. (2020). Context-aware experience sampling reveals the scale of variation in affective experience.

Level D Longitudinal study doi:10.1038/s41598-020-69180-y

What this study supports

Supports the claim that recurring physiological patterns varied in number and nature within individuals, as did the affect ratings and emotion labels attached to them, while some broad patterns recurred across individuals. Exploratory unsupervised clustering in repeated sampling, so it is graded D; an erratum was published in 2021 and was not reviewed here.

Who was studied
Adults followed with physiologically triggered experience sampling in daily life; the abstract does not state the sample size.
Design
Longitudinal study
Level of evidence
Cross-sectional, observational, qualitative work and narrative reviews.

Claims that rest on it

Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.

EmpiricalLevel DConfidence MODERATE

In physiologically triggered experience sampling, the number and nature of recurring physiological patterns varied within individuals, as did the affect ratings and emotion labels associated with each pattern, although some broad patterns recurred across individuals.

Scope
Daily-life sampling triggered by substantial cardiac changes without movement.
Caveat
A single study using exploratory unsupervised clustering; the abstract does not report the sample size, and a 2021 erratum was not reviewed.

Last reviewed · Review due · measuring-physiological-patterns-vary