#### [[The Day Reconstruction Method]] --- > We present a new hybrid approach, the DRM, which combines a time-use study with a technique for recovering affective experiences. DRM respondents first revive memories of the previous day by constructing a diary consisting of a sequence of episodes. Then they describe each episode by answering questions about the situation and about the feelings that they experienced, as in experience sampling. The goal is to provide an accurate picture of the experience associated with activities (e.g., commuting) and circumstances (e.g., a job with time pressure. > -- [[& 2021-01-15 A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience The Day Reconstruction Method|Kahneman2004]] manually walking through your day and listing out the series of events and their corresponding timestamps yield a more accurate recollection of the day. “re-tracing your steps” When you ask a direct overall questions i.e. *“Do you enjoy your kids?”* the response you will receive is layered by socially acceptable societal norms *“of course i enjoy my children! How dare you imply otherwise!”* However when asked to rate and describe ones day chunked by episodes and interactions and then perform an assessment on how one feels during that episode you’re more likely to get an accurate assessment of the day/feelings. When the assessments are piece-meal and rated on an individual basis instead of an overall view point/opinion/perspective, then you’ll get a less biased response. the example being instead of the overall question listed above, you get a variety of interactions that get tallied into an aggregated score that provides a more accurate personal opinion on the subject without taking socially acceptable behavior and societal norms into account with ones overall response. i.e. - normally *“of course i enjoy my children! How dare you imply otherwise!”* - where as the aggregated opinion: *“i enjoy caring for the kids second to least out of all listed activities.“* --- Tags: [[Psychology]] - [[Societal Norms]] - [[Perception]] - [[Reputation]] - [[Bias]] Reference: [[& 2021-01-15 A Survey Method for Characterizing Daily Life Experience The Day Reconstruction Method]] Related: -