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Ecological momentary assessment
A family of methods in which people report their current states repeatedly in daily life, for example several times a day on a phone, rather than recalling them later in a laboratory. Momentary reports reduce the reliance on memory and general beliefs that shapes retrospective self-report, and repeated sampling makes it possible to study how emotions change over time. The method still depends on self-report and can alter what it measures by prompting reflection. How one could reason about recording a catharsis-like change of state: signals, features, inference and context, baselines, self-report, error costs and ethics, and why every step stays uncertain. Nothing on this site measures anyone. Affective computing promises to infer emotion as if it were a system metric. The evidence on facial movements and autonomic signals, together with questions of consent, explains why every metric in this artifact is an artistic value. The works the definition rests on, with the level of evidence each was appraised at. (2002). Belief and feeling: Evidence for an accessibility model of emotional self-report. doi:10.1037/0033-2909.128.6.934 Supports the claim that reports of current feelings and reports of past or hypothetical feelings draw on different information, episodic experience versus beliefs about emotion. A theoretical organising model. (2017). Emotion dynamics. doi:10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.06.004 Supports the claim that emotions fluctuate over time in patterned ways that require repeated measurement to study. A brief opinion-style review.Where the site uses it
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