In this article, we review the differences between momentary, retrospective, and trait self-
report techniques and discuss the unique role that ambulatory reports of momentary�…

Convergent experimental data, autobiographical studies, and investigations on daily life
have all demonstrated that gathering information retrospectively is a highly dubious�…

Accuracy of self-reported bodily symptoms is important for the clinician and the researcher.
Understanding the mechanisms underlying bias may provide an interesting window to�…

Objective: Self-rated health (SRH) is known to predict mortality and other health outcomes
better than objective ratings, suggesting that patients have important knowledge that�…

Rigorous methodological techniques have been developed in the last decade to improve
the reliability and accuracy of self reports from research volunteers and patients about their�…

Ambulatory assessment (AA)–a collection of methods that aim to track individuals in the
realm of everyday life via repeated self-reports or passive mobile sensing–is well�…

Researchers and practitioners routinely ask individuals about their health. We ask people to
what degree they are experiencing a variety of physical symptoms from headache and upset�…

Autobiographical memory research typically focuses on individual memories with variability
in individual participants' responses serving as error variance. Integrating individual�…

A growing body of literature suggests that retrospective recall of psychiatric symptoms is
often inaccurate and may distort knowledge about the course of illness and impact�…

Memories of specific life episodes, termed personal event memories, have only recently
become a focus of systematic research. In this article, memories of momentous events are�…