Data · dataset · 2026
The impact of the weekly cycle on conscious experience in daily life Data and Scripts
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Data and scripts for Wallace et al., 2025 [pre-print] for reproducibility.
Description
In this repository, you will find analysis scripts and component solutions as word clouds to illustrate and interrogate the relationship between day of the week and times of the day on experiences in daily life. Our analysis aimed to establish the types of experiences reported in daily-life using samples from two different countries (Canada and the UK) in student and general population age groups.
Participants responded to probes about their experiences by answering questions about the dimensions of their thoughts using multi-dimensional experience sampling (mDES) multiple times a day across the week. Our results reveal across our entire sample, as well as our country and age-group analyses, reveal 3 components of thought associated with experiences. Using these data, we empirically assess if the weekly cycle has an impact on conscious experiences and how these experiences relate to our daily activities.
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We establish two main findings from our results. First, participants thoughts become more task problem-focused, deliberate, and detailed (i.e. Detail Task-Focus) throughout the day, which is specific to weekdays rather than weekends. This thought pattern was most present when individuals reported working or studying and negatively associated with talking in person.
On the other hand, experiences involving more intrusive and distracting features are most prevalent in passive states (resting or doing nothing), neither of which vary with the weekly cycle. The raw data used in the manuscript, are available on request.
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Where it is published
- DOI doi.org/10.17632/nwvnhjfrc3.2 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from researchdata tees ac uk
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- OAI-PMH record data.mendeley.com/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai%3Adata… ↗
metadata API · from researchdata tees ac uk
Topics
- From keywords
- Earth & Environmental Science
Provenance · 1 source records, 6 field assertions
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| Teesside University Research Data Repository | oai:data.mendeley.com/nwvnhjfrc3.2 | 18 h ago | JSON v1 |
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