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Description: The Experience Sampling Method (ESM), a technique to study emotions in daily life, is booming among researchers and clinicians. To justify its use, valid measurements are crucial, but recently concerns about the validity of ESM have been voiced. An important source of validity evidence are the response processes that individuals engage in when answering questions about their emotions, specifically how they interpret and respond to these questions. Remarkably, we know very little about the exact response processes in emotion measurement in ESM studies. More importantly, there are concerns that participants are not consistent over time and differ from each other in how they interpret and respond to questions about their emotions. The current project proposes a person-specific approach to identify how individuals interpret and respond to questions about their emotions in ESM studies. Specifically, it will identify how consistent individuals are over time and how they differ from each other in these response processes. Results will generate new hypotheses regarding response processes and provide practical implications for researchers and clinicians using ESM. This publication is part of the project "How do people respond how they feel - Response processes in ESM studies" with project number 406.XS.01.086 of the research programme SSH Open Competition XS which is partly financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).