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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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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How to identify participants answering online questionnaires who have not paid attention? [duplicate]
I often analyse data that involves participants completing a selection of psychological tests online. A concern with online testing is that some participants may not complete the task conscientiously. ...
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What is the effect of Social Media consumption on self-esteem?
I have been seeing many conflicting studies saying that facebook usage increases or decreases self-esteem.
What is the current consensus regarding the effect of facebook usage on self-esteem?
Has ...
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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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Images on personal computers - Which aspect of size to keep constant?
For various reasons we're doing a reaction time study involving images that runs on unstandardized equipment: patients' personal computers (unless they don't meet certain requirements).
It's not about ...
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Free online survey and diary software for conducting experience sampling studies
Are there any open source online survey software that enable researchers to use experience-sampling methods, e.g. online diaries (where people answer similar survey questions repeatedly and are ...
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Is there a cognitive psychology theory for social curiosity? [closed]
Lets say there are two persons denoted $p_1$ and $p_2$ who share some common friends denoted $N$.
$p_1$ is told that $N$ of his friends are interacting with $p_2$. This generates an inherent ...
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Web-based tools for documenting studies?
I am interested in how open science could be done in psychology. Are there good web-based tools that could house and share a study? When I say "study" I mean:
Lab notes from collecting data
Raw ...
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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. Since it is not compatible with non-Windows systems, we lose a lot of potential subjects. Ideally, we would like to implement something ...
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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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What's the psychology behind Trolling/Flaming?
For those new to the internet, trolling is an activity were one person intentionally tries to upset other members of the same community, presumably for entertainment.
This has been informally ...
