An Empirical Analysis of the Obtrusiveness of and Participants' Compliance with the Electronically Activated Recorder (EAR)

By Matthias R. Mehl, Shannon E. Holleran. 2007

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Lab And/Or Field? Measuring Personality Processes and Their Social Consequences (2015, background): “Past research has consistently yielded valid assessments with ‘thin slices’ of audio (e.g. 30 or 50 s), a small number of recordings per hour (e.g. one every 9 or 12min) and a total monitoring period of 2–4 days (Mehl & Holleran, 2007).”
Preliminary evidence of diurnal rhythms in everyday behaviors associated with positive affect (2008, methodology): “For more details about the EAR, including information about the method’s obtrusiveness and participants’ compliance with wearing the device see Mehl (2007) and Mehl and Holleran (2007) .”
Talking Shop and Shooting the Breeze (2011, unknown): “The fact that this difference did not exist when participants discussed research with female colleagues or when discussing social topics (all ps > .40) suggests that it was not simply the case that female scientists were perceived by our”