Temporal lens

This is the landing page for topics about what time points, or occasions, you consider and how your process is captured or covered in each occasion. We refer to this as your temporal lens.

The temporal lens of your study determines what patterns you observe of your process. It involves theoretical assumptions about over what timescale the process unfolds, what kinds of temporal dynamics matter, and how these should be captured through measurement.

Below we have specified multiple topics that may help tuning the zoom of your temporal lens.

Think more about your temporal lens

Determining the timescale of your process

A process may operate at different timescales. Your research question governs which timescale is of interest.

Effects over time that may be of interest
Capturing the dynamics of interest

The measurement design dictates how well you can capture the dynamics you are interested in.


Sophie W. Berkhout

Last modified: 2025-05-09