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Self-report
A person's own account of their state, collected through questionnaires, rating scales, interviews or momentary prompts. Self-report is the most direct access to subjective experience, but it depends on awareness, language, willingness to disclose and, for past states, on memory and general beliefs about how one usually feels. Momentary reports rely more on current experience, whereas retrospective reports increasingly draw on such beliefs. 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. 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. 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. (2009). Measures of emotion: A review. doi:10.1080/02699930802204677 Supports the claims that measures tend to reflect dimensions rather than discrete states, converge only modestly, and that there is no gold-standard measure of emotion. Narrative review.Where the site uses it
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