Odum Institute: An introduction to daily life methods

An introduction to daily life methods: daily diary and experience-sampling methods

This one-day course will be offered via Zoom. Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

Course Summary:

Daily life methods are a family of methods used to study what people do in their ordinary environments in their everyday lives through collecting data at least once a day for several days. Two common forms of daily life methods, daily diaries and experience sampling methods, will be emphasized in this course.

This course will be interactive and present opportunities for attendees to start thinking about how to apply daily life methods to their own programs of research.

Instructor: Katherine Cotter, PhD

Katherine Cotter, PhD, is a researcher with the Humanities and Human Flourishing Project in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research has focused on people’s interactions with music and visual art, with an emphasis on assessing interactions in people’s typical, everyday environments. In her work, Cotter often uses daily life methods, which assess people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors as they occur in their everyday environments.  

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