Mapping cognition across lab and daily life using Experience-Sampling.

Chitiz, Louis; Mckeown, Bronte; Mulholland, Bridget; Wallace, Raven; Goodall-Halliwell, Ian; Ping-Ho, Nerissa Siu; Konu, Delali; Poerio, Giulia L; Wammes, Jeffrey; Milham, Michael; Klein, Arno; Jefferies, Elizabeth; Leech, Robert; Smallwood, Jonathan

doi:10.1016/j.concog.2025.103853

Mapping cognition across lab and daily life using Experience-Sampling.

Chitiz, Louis; Mckeown, Bronte; Mulholland, Bridget; Wallace, Raven; Goodall-Halliwell, Ian; Ping-Ho, Nerissa Siu; Konu, Delali; Poerio, Giulia L; Wammes, Jeffrey; Milham, Michael; Klein, Arno; Jefferies, Elizabeth; Leech, Robert; Smallwood, Jonathan

Authors

Louis Chitiz

Bronte Mckeown

Bridget Mulholland

Raven Wallace

Ian Goodall-Halliwell

Nerissa Siu Ping-Ho

Delali Konu delali.konu@durham.ac.uk
Honorary Associate

Giulia L Poerio

Jeffrey Wammes

Michael Milham

Arno Klein

Elizabeth Jefferies

Robert Leech

Jonathan Smallwood

Abstract

The goal of psychological research is to understand behaviour in daily life. Although lab studies provide the control necessary to identify cognitive mechanisms behind behaviour, how these controlled situations generalise to activities in daily life remains unclear. Experience-sampling provides useful descriptions of cognition in the lab and real world and the current study examined how thought patterns generated by multidimensional experience-sampling (mDES) generalise across both contexts. We combined data from five published studies to generate a common 'thought-space' using data from the lab and daily life. This space represented data from both lab and daily life in an unbiased manner and grouped lab tasks and daily life activities with similar features (e.g., working in daily life was similar to working memory in the lab). Our study establishes mDES can map cognition from lab and daily life within a common space, allowing for more ecologically valid descriptions of cognition and behaviour. [Abstract copyright: Copyright © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.]

Citation

Chitiz, L., Mckeown, B., Mulholland, B., Wallace, R., Goodall-Halliwell, I., Ping-Ho, N. S., Konu, D., Poerio, G. L., Wammes, J., Milham, M., Klein, A., Jefferies, E., Leech, R., & Smallwood, J. (2025). Mapping cognition across lab and daily life using Experience-Sampling. Consciousness and Cognition, 131, 103853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2025.103853

Journal Article Type	Article
Acceptance Date	Mar 24, 2025
Online Publication Date	Apr 10, 2025
Publication Date	2025-05
Deposit Date	May 13, 2025
Publicly Available Date	May 13, 2025
Journal	Consciousness and cognition
Print ISSN	1053-8100
Publisher	Elsevier
Peer Reviewed	Peer Reviewed
Volume	131
Pages	103853
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2025.103853
Public URL	https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3803988