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Emotions beyond the laboratory: Theoretical fundaments, study design, and analytic strategies for advanced ambulatory assessment
Wilhelm, F. H., & Grossman, P. (2010). Emotions beyond the laboratory: Theoretical fundaments, study design, and analytic strategies for advanced ambulatory assessment.
Level D Review doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2010.01.017
What this study supports
Supports the claim that emotional effects in daily-life physiological data can be masked by social engagement, mental and physical workload, food intake and circadian and quasi-random metabolic variation, so interpretation needs detailed context. It describes what must be controlled, not how large each confound is.
- Who was studied
- Not applicable: a methodological review of ambulatory assessment of emotion across experience, behaviour and physiology.
- Design
- Review
- 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.
TechnicalLevel DConfidence HIGH
Ambulatory assessment reduces retrospective bias and gains ecological validity, but physiological signs of emotion in daily life can be masked by social engagement, mental and physical workload, food intake and circadian and metabolic variation, and such monitoring raises acceptability, compliance, privacy and ethical issues.
- Scope
- Measurement of emotion outside the laboratory.
- Caveat
- Methodological reviews: they describe what must be controlled, not how large each confound is.
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