I Know How You Feel - Emotion Communication in Daily Life

This project aims at investigating age differences in emotional communication of younger and older couples in their daily-life contexts. To meet this aim, we implement dyadic experience sampling in a sample of 50 younger and 50 older heterosexual cohabiting couples, using mobile phones as assessment instruments. Measurement occasions for cohabiting partners are scheduled simultaneously. Among other things, participants report their own, and their partner's momentary affective experiences. We are interested in age-related differences regarding partners' mutual insight into their momentary subjective experience, as well as in relevant contextual influences and social consequences.