In #ESM / #EMA, how you ask “How do you feel right now?” shapes your data.
Sliders 🎚️, smileys 🙂, drawing trajectories 📈, or emotion wheels 🎡: they all capture something different.
We break down 5 approaches (and their trade-offs) in a new #m-path blog: m-path.io/blog/high-fi...
Egon Dejonckheere
In our new blog, we showcase 5 m-Path studies that adapted #ESM / #EMA protocols for:
🎗️ advanced cancer
🧩 intellectual disabilities
🗣️ aphasia after stroke
🧠 dementia
🍄 psilocybin microdosing
They show that ESM / EMA is not a rigid protocol.
Feasibility can be designed.
m-path.io/blog/high-fi...
How happy are you right now?
Single-item measures dominate #ESM / #EMA.
Fast. Intuitive. Low burden.
But… how reliable are they really? #m-Path research suggests that a large share of within-person variance may be noise...
👉 Read more: m-path.io/blog/from-pa...
How many hours have you lost reinventing items, preprocessing data, or second-guessing your #ESM / #EMA design? 🤔
You don’t have to with these 5 #open-science initiatives!
Read our latest #m-Path blog: m-path.io/blog/high-fi...
Most #EMA / #ESM studies track eating in real time.
But real-time doesn't automatically mean reliable.
Two people log “pasta with meat”: Same entry. Different intake.
A new #m-Path blog shows how dropdowns turn messy food logs into actionable data.
Food for thought 🍝
m-path.io/blog/feature...
#haveyouseenMATILDA? matilda.fss.uu.nl
Most #ESM / #EMA studies capture daily-life patterns. But arguments😡, cravings🍫, panic episodes⚠️ or emotional peaks⚡ can happen between prompts.
In our new From Paper to Practice blog, we discuss an #m-Path study on event- and threshold-based #burst designs: m-path.io/blog/how-to-...
New paper— everyone is collecting intensive longitudinal data but recent review studies report that less than half of studies consider measurement/psychometrics. The paper covers a few foundational psychometric methods for ILD and provides a shiny app to apply them
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
We're (@katiegreenaway.bsky.social) recruiting a new PhD student to work on interpersonal emotion regulation in everyday life. The position is for a joint PhD program between the University of Melbourne and KU Leuven. Please share! findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/...
The #SAA2026 conference programme (and presenter guidelines) is now available: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/prog...
Egon Dejonckheere
Egon Dejonckheere
Egon Dejonckheere
Egon Dejonckheere
Egon Dejonckheere
Many intensive longitudinal studies are interested in topics that are not always amenable to direct physical measurement and instead are often theorized as latent constructs (e.g., affect, emotion, mo...
<p> Our societies are becoming more socially disconnected. To address this problem, we need to understand how social connection is created. One powerful method to build social connections is interpersonal emotion regulation, which involves the processes through which people seek and offer emotional support. However, people report providing more emotional support than they receive, suggesting that the provision of emotional support is often unnoticed or unsuccessful. This project aims to understand and reduce this misalignment between the perception and provision of emotional support in everyday life. To do this, we investigate these processes in romantic couples, using new dyadic experience-sampling tools to capture both partners’ perspectives in real time. The project consists of three work packages. Work Package 1 will determine whether perception-provision misalignment is most frequently driven by the receiver or the provider, and which type of misalignment is more consequential for emotional and relational outcomes. Work Package 2 will identify the antecedents of perception-provision misalignment, establishing contextual, individual, and couple-level factors to see who is more at risk when. Finally, Work Package 3 will test a brief intervention to reduce misalignment between perception and provision of support. In determining when and why there are gaps between perceived and provided interpersonal emotion regulation, the project will generate practical methods to strengthen everyday social connection. </p>
The #SAA2026 Conference Programme is now online:
univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/prog...
We look forward to welcoming presenters, chairs, and attendees to Vienna for an inspiring and memorable conference. Take a look and start planning your #SAA2026 experience!
Have you seen MATILDA (matilda.fss.uu.nl)? Which stands for Measurement, Analysis & Theory for Intensive Longitudinal Data. MATILDA is a website with educational articles that help researchers align theory, measurement, and analysis when studying processes using intensive longitudinal data.
