SAVE THE DATE, everyone I know locally who’s been hearing me rave about this conference for three years

Society for Ambulatory Assessment@ambulatory-assessment.org · 2d ago

#SAA2027 will be hosted at the University of Toronto, Canada! We are very much looking forward to seeing you there.

#SAA2026 Outlier or trend? 🤔 I’m not so sure anymore! My preregistration: trend! Let’s see the results in 🇨🇦!! @aneubauer.bsky.social you can use this post in your next year’s secretary report! 😜

Egon Dejonckheere@dejonckheeregon.bsky.social · last yr.

Leuven seems to be an outlier in this attendance time series, discussed in @aneubauer.bsky.social secretary report at the #SAA2025 general assembly! 📈

1/2 New #openaccess Psych Methods paper: "Identifying Careless Responding in Ecological Momentary Assessment: Inconsistent Signals From Different Detection Methods in the WARN-D Data" led by @leonievogelsmeier.bsky.social. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Can passive sensing make #ESM / #EMA prompts smarter and more personalized? 🤔 Final blog before summer: an internal #m-Path pilot on whether wearables can help detect nicotine craving in smokers, and prompt them at exactly that moment. ⚡ Successes & failures included. 👉 m-path.io/blog/how-pas...

In dyadic daily life research, partners may report on different “shared” events. Our new Feature Focus blog shows a diary workflow that anchors both partners’ reports to the same real-life interaction. 💬 Couples 👨‍👩‍👧 Families 🛋️ Therapy 🤝 Other dyads Check out the blog: m-path.io/blog/how-to-...

How to study shared events in dyadic daily life research.

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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-...

#haveyouseenMATILDA? matilda.fss.uu.nl

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Laura Bringmann 🟥@bringmannlaura.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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.

The #SAA2026 conference programme (and presenter guidelines) is now available: univie.eventsair.com/saa2026/prog...

Society for Ambulatory Assessment 2026 Conference@saa2026.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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!

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...

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/...

Realigning interpersonal regulation in everyday life : Find an Expert : The University of Melbourne

<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>

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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...

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...

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...

A primer on intensive longitudinal psychometrics - Behavior Research Methods

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...

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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...

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 do you assess the reliability of single-item ratings in ESM / EMA?

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Most #EMA / #ESM studies rely on snapshots 📸 But experience is continuous! What if real insights live *between* measurements? 📉 Dr. Leonie Cloos used #m-Path’s continuous line item to collect affective intensity profiles in everyday life: blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/...

How Intensity Profile Drawings Transform ESM / EMA Assessment.

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Hoe denken jongeren over hun emoties — en wat doet dat met hun welzijn? Voor mijn NWO Vidi project zoeken we (@domimaciejewski.bsky.social & @charlottev.bsky.social) een PhD-kandidaat die dit samen met ons gaat uitzoeken! 🎓 Solliciteer voor 27 april! 👉 tiu.nu/23638 @tesc-tilburgu.bsky.social

@eeskevanroekel.bsky.social @charlottev.bsky.social & myself are recruiting a PhD student on momentary emotion beliefs and well-being in adolescents (includes ESM & qualitative methods). Position requires Dutch (for data collection). Happy to answer questions! 👉 Apply: tiu.nu/23638 (27 april 2026)

Why do participants stop responding in #ESM / #EMA studies? 📱🔔 Average compliance is about 7️⃣9️⃣%, but that hides massive variation. Our new m-Path blog reviews predictors of response compliance: study design, incentives, participant traits, and time effects. 🔗 blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/...

Predictors of response compliance in ESM / EMA research

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Perspective: Open-ended responses can improve ESM data by grounding it in real-world experiences and phenomena as they are experienced in everyday life. Handbooks and guidelines on ESM should include sections on collecting and analyzing open-ended text items. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Join us in beautiful Dubrovnik for the XVII Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science (21–24 May 2026)! This year’s theme focuses on adaptation and its limits across multiple timescales, individual differences, and mental health. Abstracts from all areas of cogsci welcome! Visit: ducog.cecog.eu

DUCOG — Conference 2026

Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science

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✍️ New m-Path blogpost! Should #ESM / #EMA researchers show participants' previous rating? 🎚️ We tested three response formats in a real-world EMA study. One clearly outperformed the others, with consequences for reliability and affect dynamics. 👉 Read the blog: blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/... 📱

Visualizing previous ratings improves measurement in ESM / EMA studies

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more empirical evidence that the mean (and SD) are hard to beat... Full paper: psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... #beatthemean #vanquishthevariance #affectdynamics

m-Path blogpost time! 📝 Should you gamify your #ESM / #EMA study? 🎮 A cautionary tale on the use of virtual coins, streaks and instant rewards to boost response compliance in intensive longitudinal research… 👉 Read the blog: blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/....

Should you gamify your ESM / EMA study?

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📣 We are excited to share that a new paper by Eisele & colleagues has been accepted in Psychological Assessment: “The Distracted Participant? Experience Sampling Response Behavior and Participant Disturbance in Social Situations.” osf.io/preprints/ps...

Are you using experience sampling/ mobile sensing or are interested in incorporating these naturalistic methods? Are you going to SPSP? Are you 0-6 years post PhD? Sign up to join the early career mentoring session at 4:30 PM on Friday 02/27! www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0C4EAB...

I would like to start a veridicality movement in clinical psychology. I've realized this is my primary concern with network models. We *want* them to convey information flow and dynamics, but they're just lag-1 regression models at (relatively) glacial time scales. They don't reflect what we want.

Thrilled to announce the Oxford Psychological Networks Summer School (OxPNS)! This is the first-ever psychological network analysis workshop in the UK, to be held in magical Oxford from June 22-26, 2026. To apply and for more information, please visit: oxfordpns.com A brief thread 🧵

☕ Time for a new #m-Path blog post! 📱🤔 A classic #ESM / #EMA dilemma: Own smartphone or research-dedicated device? It sounds trivial, but this choice subtly shapes how people respond. A rarely cited paper tested both, with non-obvious takeaways. 👉 Full breakdown: blog.m-path.io/blog/blog-1/...

Should participants use their own smartphone in ESM / EMA studies?

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We’re launching a bi-weekly m-Path blog on #ESM / #EMA measurement, new papers & showcases. 🗓️ Every 2 weeks (Wed). First up: item quality. A paper by @gudruneisele.bsky.social introduces ESM-Q: a consensus checklist for good momentary items. 👉 Read the blog: blog.m-path.io/blog/our-blo...