The impact of the weekly cycle on conscious experience in daily life Data and Scripts

Data and scripts for Wallace et al., 2025 [pre-print] for reproducibility. 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. 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.本仓库收录了Wallace等人2025年预印本研究的复现所需数据与脚本。在本仓库中，您将获取用于阐释并剖析一周中不同日期、一日内不同时段与日常生活体验间关联的分析脚本，以及以词云形式呈现的组分分析结果。 本研究的分析目标为，通过取自加拿大与英国两个国家的学生群体及普通年龄组人群样本，明确日常生活中所报告的体验类型。研究参与者在整周内每日多次接受多维体验抽样（multi-dimensional experience sampling, mDES）调研，通过回答有关其思维维度的问题来反馈自身的体验状况。无论是针对全部样本，还是分国家与年龄组的分析结果均显示，与体验相关的思维可划分为3个组分。基于上述数据，我们通过实证分析验证了每周周期是否会对意识体验产生影响，以及此类体验与日常活动间的关联路径。 本研究得出两项核心结论。其一，仅在工作日而非周末，参与者的思维会在一日内逐渐转向更具任务问题导向性、深思熟虑且细节丰富的状态（即「细节导向任务型思维」）。此类思维模式在参与者报告处于工作或学习状态时最为显著，且与面对面交谈呈负相关关系。另一方面，带有更多侵入性与干扰性特征的体验，在被动状态（休息或无所事事）下最为常见，且此类体验的发生频率并不随每周周期发生变化。 本论文所用的原始数据可应要求提供。