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Generalizing Across People or Capturing Unique Personal Experiences? Nomothetic to Idiographic Ways of Assessing Self-Reported Emotions in Daily Life

2025-08-27

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<p>In this article, we take an in-depth look at different ways of assessing emotions in daily lifethrough experience sampling, ranging from more generalizable, nomothetic approaches (e.g.,asking all participants to rate their degree of sadness) to more specialized, idiographicapproaches (e.g., asking participants to describe their emotions in their own words). Wehighlight the benefits of these procedures and discu...

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Literature Corpus work: e5120e5e-c4db-5bfd-843b-8e9ba540bdea
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/gqprk_v1

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