Five articles on the Situated Assessment Method (SAM²) have now been published.  The first of these articles introduced the SAM²psychometric approach and provides the most detail about its background, implementation, and implications.  This initial report provides a good starting point for exploring the SAM² approach to measuring individual differences in a situated manner.  It also provides empirical results that bear on the nature of habitual behaviour, including the role of goals and reward:

Dutriaux, L., Clark, N., Papies, E.K., Scheepers, C., & Barsalou, L.W. (2023). The Situated Assessment Method (SAM²): Establishing individual differences in habitual behavior. PLoS ONE, 18(6): e0286954. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0286954.

Four later articles implemented the SAM² approach to assess individual differences in trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling), eustress, climate anxiety, and water drinking in a situated manner:

Taylor Browne Lūka, C., Hendry, K., Dutriaux, L., Stevenson, J. L., & Barsalou, L. W. (2025). Developing and evaluating a situated assessment instrument for trichotillomania: The SAM² TAI.  Assessment, 32, 738-758.  Supplemental materials.

Kloidt, J., & Barsalou, L.W. (2026). Successful outcomes, fulfilment, and positive affect: Establishing facets of eustress across real-life challenging situations. Social Indicators Research, 184, 20, 1-25. SM

Hill-Harding, C. K. V., Klein, M. D., von Stackelberg, C., Papies, E. K., & Barsalou, L. (2025). Developing and evaluating a situated psychometric instrument for assessing climate anxiety: The SAM² CAM. Applied psychology: Health and Wellbeing. Online publication.

Rodger, A., Barsalou, L.W., & Papies, E.K. (2024). Habitualness, reward and external constraints: Exploring the underlying influences of daily water intake using the Situated Assessment Method.² Applied psychology: Health and Wellbeing, 16, 2458-2483. 

An early precursor to the SAM² approach was presented in the following article on stress:

Lebois, L.A.M., Hertzog, C., Slavich, G.M., Barrett, L.F., & Barsalou, L.W. (2016). Establishing the situated features associated with perceived stress.  Acta Psychologica, 169, 119-132. Supplemental Materials.

Additional precursors can be found in:

Barsalou, L.W. (2020). Challenges and opportunities for grounding cognition. Journal of Cognition. 3(1): 31, 1–24.

Lebois, L.A.M., Wilson-Mendenhall, C.D., Simmons, W.K., Barrett, L.F., & Barsalou, L.W. (2020). Learning situated emotions. Neuropsychologia, 145, 106637.

Barsalou, L.W. (2016). Situated conceptualization: Theory and applications. In Y. Coello & M. H. Fischer (Eds.), Foundations of embodied cognition, Volume 1: Perceptual and emotional embodiment (pp. 11-37). East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.

Yeh, W., & Barsalou, L.W. (2006). The situated nature of concepts. American Journal of Psychology, 119, 349-384.

Barsalou, L.W. (2003). Situated simulation in the human conceptual system. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18, 513-562.[Reprinted in H. Moss & J. Hampton, Conceptual representation (pp. 513-566). East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.]

Barsalou, L.W. (1982). Context-independent and context-dependent information in concepts. Memory & Cognition, 10, 82-93.