Abstract
This presentation is a part of invited symposium "The Stranger as a Symbol of Otherness". This symposium deals with attitudes towards otherness and its day to day variability while taking into account individual personality and psychodynamic interpretation of our own otherness.
Experience sampling is an intensive longitudinal method for gathering information from individuals about their subjective experiences in daily life. This method is helpful in studying dynamic intra-individual processes such as emotions or thoughts.
Experience sampling allows to capture participants' feelings in the context of everyday life using modern technology, e.g. smart phones. Affect or emotional response is one of the important aspects in perception of otherness.
As such, experience sampling can provide more accurate data about participants' experience than standard recall-based self-report measures. It is plausible to assume that people differ in the degree of within-person variability in experiencing otherness.
And this variability may held important and more detailed information about individuals' perception of otherness and social attitude. Moreover, the degree of intra-individual stability can be operationalized as a broad personality feature.
Research using experience sampling method to capture within-person change in affective response to otherness will be introduced and preliminary results will be presented.