The Multi-Method Ambulatory Assessment (MMAA) Project
The goal of this project is to chart age differences in affective experiences and their interrelations with motivational, cognitive, and physiological processes over time. Since 2007, five longitudinal measurement phases have been conducted in close to 600 individuals aged 12 to 85+ years. Further measurements are planned. We combine ambulatory assessment methodologies, which allow measurements of experiences, cognitive capacity, and physiological processes in daily-life contexts, with interview techniques and well-controlled experimental paradigms. Ambulatory assessment methods include mobile phone-based experience sampling, and ambulatory bio-monitoring of cardiac activity, physical activity, and hormonal processes.
Principal Investigators
Collaborators
Publications
Riediger, M., Wrzus, C., Klipker, K., Müller, V., Schmiedek, F., & Wagner, G. G. (in press). Outside of the laboratory: Associations of working-memory performance with psychological and physiological arousal vary with age. Psychology and Aging.
Wrzus, C., Wagner, G. G., & Riediger, M. (in press). Feeling good when sleeping in? Day-to-day associations between sleep duration and affective well-being differ from youth to old age. Emotion.
Wrzus, C., Müller, V., Wagner, G. G., Lindenberger, U., & Riediger, M. (2013). Affective and cardiovascular responding to unpleasant events from adolescence to old age: Complexity of events matters. Developmental Psychology, 49, 384-397. doi:10.1037/a0028325
Wrzus, C., Brandmaier, A. M., Oertzen, T. v., Müller, V., Wagner, G. G., & Riediger, M. (2012). A new approach for assessing sleep duration and postures from ambulatory accelerometry. PLoS ONE, 7(10):e48089. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048089
Riediger, M., Wrzus, C., Schmiedek, F., Wagner, G. G., & Lindenberger, U. (2011). Is seeking bad mood cognitively demanding? Contra-hedonic orientation and working-memory capacity in everyday life. Emotion, 11, 656-665.
Riediger, M., Schmiedek, F., Wagner, G. G., & Lindenberger, U. (2009). Seeking pleasure and seeking pain: Age-related differences in pro- and contra-hedonic motivation from adolescence to old age. Psychological Science, 20, 1529-1535.