Questions tagged [internet]
For questions regarding behaviors of internet users, use of the internet for psychology experiments, or accessing cognitive sciences resources via the web.
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Open source software for running Internet psychological experiments that collect reaction time data
I've often used Inquisit to run psychological experiments online. The software enables delivery of stimuli (e.g., text, images, etc.) and collection of reaction times.
Obviously general purpose ...
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How valid are reaction times collected from online studies?
Online studies promise the possibility of greatly increased numbers of and variability in populations to study, but there are many potential concerns and need for validation, and diving in head first ...
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How to use Mechanical Turk for longer studies (i.e., 30 minutes+)?
I'm interested in using Mechanical Turk as a means of recruiting participants for online psychology studies. I have never used it for any research. However, many of my studies take around 30 minutes ...
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Where to post online psychology studies for participant recruitment?
A common challenge when running psychological studies is getting enough participants.
Of course, there are many general strategies for recruiting participants, but I was specifically interested in ...
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Why might a person get widely varying scores on different online IQ tests?
Online IQ tests often yield wildly varying results (say 60 - 150). These are actual values obtained by repeated measures. It is puzzling, because it's such a wide range. How can the same person be ...
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Where can I find online interactive versions of classic experiments in psychology for the purposes of teaching?
It's often useful and fun for students to experience well-known psychology experiments. Where can demo versions of famous psychology experiments be found online?
Some example paradigms that might be ...
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What is the psychology behind trolling?
For those new to the internet, trolling is an activity where one person intentionally tries to upset other members of the same community, presumably for entertainment.
This has been informally ...
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Software for online psychological experiments that don't require users to download anything
We are currently using Inquisit to conduct Internet experiments.
Ideally, we would like to implement something that is strictly browser-based, without any extra plug-ins or downloads. We also ...
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Why do teenagers take the internet and cyberbullying so seriously?
Background: I saw this post on the daily Mirror: A girl committed suicide because some users bullied her on ask.fm. I signed up to see what that site is, and it was some Q&A site. So she committed ...
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What effects does spending a lot of time in online communities have on interpersonal skills?
There are quite a few users who are pretty much addicted to the Stack Exchange network and spend over 3-4 hours per day here. Time spent here will result in lower amount of social interactions, and ...
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Where to recruit paid participants for online Inquisit experiments?
My team and I are trying to use Inquisit for a reaction-time based experiment looking at attentional bias. However, with the no download policy on Mturk and CrowdFlower, we don't know a good site to ...
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Why do people make rants on Meta Stack Exchange sites?
Meta stackexchange sites are often the venue for immature rants authored by disgruntled members of the site. The Math stackexchange and meta stackoverflow includes a lot of this behavior. During a ...
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