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Milla Pihlajamäki
@millapihlajamaki.bsky.social
PhD candidate at the Center for Contextual Psychiatry, KU Leuven | interested in the methodological aspects of ESM research | she/her
The first preprint from the SHARE study is out! 🥳 We compared the effects of three different incentives (a bulk payment, a bulk payment with personalized feedback, and payment per beep) on data quantity, data quality, and participant experiences in a student sample.
The effect of incentive type on data quality and quantity in an experience sampling study in a student population: https://osf.io/pc924
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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We built the openESM database:
▶️60 openly available experience sampling datasets (16K+ participants, 740K+ obs.) in one place
▶️Harmonized (meta-)data, fully open-source software
▶️Filter & search all data, simply download via R/Python

Find out more:
🌐 openesmdata.org
📝 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
October 22, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Had a great time at the ESM Expert Network Meeting in Rotterdam! I presented the first SHARE study results: we found that paying participants per beep boosts compliance as compared to bulk payment (with or without personalised feedback)—and without harming data quality.

Poster: tinyurl.com/47asuaxj
October 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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👀Blogpost on measurement👀

I would have rather concluded that we don't really need factor analysis and can just rely on vibes (or previous literature). But here we are: "Factor analysis: Overrated, Misused, But Still Useful." 1/4
April 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
The first preprint from my PhD is out: osf.io/preprints/ps...! 🥳

We explored the temporal dynamics of four careless responding indicators (response time, within-beep standard deviation, an inconsistency index, occasion-person correlation) in ESM data across different samples.

Thread below🧵
OSF
osf.io
February 27, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Reposted by Milla Pihlajamäki
We applied mixture modeling of response times to existing experimental ESM data & found that higher sampling frequencies led to more careless responding, while longer questionnaires did not. Co-led by Esther Ulitzsch. Accepted at Psychol Assess, preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2s38a_v1
OSF
doi.org
February 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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New PhD position at the Center for Contextual Psychiatry! With @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social & Ginette Lafit on developing personalised real-time models of suicide risk and protective factors www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
PhD: Personalised Real-Time Models of Suicide Risk and Protective Factors
The Center for Contextual Psychiatry (CCP), within the Department of Neurosciences at KU Leuven, is offering one fully funded project on “Developing personalised, real-time, contextual models of risk ...
www.kuleuven.be
June 19, 2024 at 11:40 AM