A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience: The Day Reconstruction Method

By Daniel Kahneman, Alan B. Krueger, D. Schkade, Norbert Schwarz, Arthur A. Stone. Science, 2004

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Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Stress that Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2008, background): “In fact, it seems that commuting is the daily activity that generates the lowest level of positive affect, as well as a relatively high level of negative affect (Kahneman et al. 2003).”
Well-Being, Social Capital and Public Policy: What's New? (2006, positive): “evidence (reviewed by Kahneman, Wakker and Riis 1997, Kahneman et al 2004 and by”
The links between self-determined motivations and behavioral automaticity in a variety of real-life behaviors (2017, background): “1 3 using ecological momentary assessments (Kahneman et al. 2004; Killingsworth and Gilbert 2010) helped to select ecological behaviors that differed on the level of pleasantness and the level of occurrence.”
Behavioral Economics and Public Policy: A Pragmatic Perspective (2015, positive): “Shiffman and DeVries 1999) and by having individuals reconstruct their daily activities and recall their feelings during each episode (Kahneman et al. 2004).”
How Do We Feel on Vacation? A Closer Look at How Emotions Change over the Course of a Trip (2013, methodology): “An alternative method is the Day Reconstruction Method (Kahneman et al. 2004), in which participants are asked to write out the episodes (and associated emotions) of their entire day in the evening or the day after.”
The accommodation experiencescape: a comparative assessment of hotels and Airbnb (2017, methodology): “The three month benchmark was used to elicit more specific and recent memories, which would be expected to reduce errors and biases of recall (Kahneman et al., 2004).”
National Time Accounting: The Currency of Life (2008, methodology): “An alternative to ESM which relies on a short recall period is the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM), which is described in Kahneman et al. (2004). The DRM combines elements of experience sampling and time diaries, and is designed specifically to facilitate accurate emotional recall.”
Do We Really Need a Reason to Indulge? (2009, methodology): “Thus, episodic and concurrent reports are likely to converge Figure 1 AN INTEGRATED ACCESSIBILITY MODEL OF EMOTIONAL SELF-REPORT (Kahneman et al. 2004; Stone et al. 2006).”
Extraversion and positive affect: A day reconstruction study of person–environment transactions (2008, methodology): “The procedure for this study was closely modeled o n the original DRM procedure reported by Kahneman et al. (2004) .”
What makes teachers tick? Sustaining events in new teachers’ lives (2010, background): “Because the nature and frequency of events in teachers’ lives change not only from year to year but also from one semester/week/day to another, we considered it crucial to define the interval under consideration (Kahneman et al., 2004).”
Workaholism and daily recovery : a day reconstruction study of leisure activities (2013, methodology): “Such reports can often recover the actual experience with reasonable accuracy, as indicated by their convergence with concurrent mood reports used in experience sampling methods (e.g., Kahneman et al., 2004; Stone et al., 2007).”
Does Variety Among Activities Increase Happiness (2016, background): “While emerging research points to specific types of activities associated with happiness (Bhattacharjee and Mogilner 2014; Kahneman et al. 2004; Mogilner 2010; Mogilner et al. 2011), people’s time is composed of multiple activities, not all of which individually generate happiness.”