Naturalistic monitoring tools provide detailed information about people’s behaviors and experiences in everyday life. Most naturalistic monitoring research has focused on measuring subjective well-being. This paper discusses how naturalistic monitoring can inform behavioral public policy-making by providing detailed information about everyday decisions and the choice architecture in which these decisions are made. The authors describe how the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) – a naturalistic monitoring tool popular in the subjective well-being literature – can be used to:
- improve ecological validity of behavioral economics
- provide mechanistic evidence of the everyday workings of behavioral interventions, and
- help us to better understand people’s true preferences.
The authors believe that DRM data on everyday life have great potential to support the design and evaluation of behavioral policies.
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