Experience Sampling: Promises and Pitfalls, Strength and Weaknesses

Social Indicators Research Series

Volumn 39, Issue , 2009, Pages 157-180

  Scollon, Christie Napa ^a   Kim Prieto, Chu ^b   Diener, Ed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Autobiographical Memory; Ecological Momentary Assessment; Experience Sampling; Experience Sampling Method; Memory Bias

Indexed keywords

EID: 85188330997     PISSN: 13876570     EISSN: 22150099     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2354-4_8     Document Type: Chapter

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