Overview

This editorial introduces RRREaT-PT and develops a preliminary working definition of experiences across time. It describes an experience as the meeting of present thoughts and emotions, what is happening in the current situation, episodic memories, and the declarative and procedural memories used to understand that situation. The discussion connects these components to the challenge of studying human reality as it changes over time.

Topics covered

• The relationship between person-specific intra-individual differences and the formation of inter-individual groups.

• How near-present personal and situational circumstances, memory, and the passage of time shape experience.

• Why research on experiences across time may require mixed methods and multiple, flexible data-collection moments.

Original publication

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