1. I think this technique can, and probably should be applied to lots of other stuff.
2. I wonder how much of the benefit comes from just writing down the tallies, versus from looking back at the tallies and using that data to think “I enjoy Facebook more/less than I thought”.
3. From what I understand, in the field of positive psychology, they have the subjects do stuff like this, rather than asking them to think back and answer questions like “How happy are you when you’re using Facebook?”. From that, I assume that if positive psychologists value this technique, there must be something different and useful about in the moment data versus looking back and thinking about your past feelings data.
I think this technique can, and probably should be applied to lots of other stuff.
Yes definitely. Any kind of feed or regular sequence of events. For example details of your work day. A birthday party event. running an event.
.2. I wonder how much of the benefit comes from just writing down the tallies, versus from looking back at the tallies and using that data to think “I enjoy Facebook more/less than I thought”.
yes. There is a lot of benefit to being able to be clear on what was a cloudy feeling before.
.3. in the field of positive psychology, they have the subjects do stuff like this, rather than asking them to think back and answer questions
subjective ongoing experience is often recorded differently to retrospectives. Dan Arieli has a lot of work on how to manipulate people into remembering slightly more positive experience.
1. I think this technique can, and probably should be applied to lots of other stuff.
2. I wonder how much of the benefit comes from just writing down the tallies, versus from looking back at the tallies and using that data to think “I enjoy Facebook more/less than I thought”.
3. From what I understand, in the field of positive psychology, they have the subjects do stuff like this, rather than asking them to think back and answer questions like “How happy are you when you’re using Facebook?”. From that, I assume that if positive psychologists value this technique, there must be something different and useful about in the moment data versus looking back and thinking about your past feelings data.
Yes definitely. Any kind of feed or regular sequence of events. For example details of your work day. A birthday party event. running an event.
yes. There is a lot of benefit to being able to be clear on what was a cloudy feeling before.
subjective ongoing experience is often recorded differently to retrospectives. Dan Arieli has a lot of work on how to manipulate people into remembering slightly more positive experience.