A group of researchers at Mount Holyoke College is looking for participants of any gender (males especially encouraged to participate!) over the age of 18 who can read and write in English.
To show their great appreciation of your participation, you will have the option of being entered into a raffle for a $20 Amazon Gift Card at the end of the study. You will simply need to provide an email address to be entered into the raffle. The gift card can be used
at amazon.com to purchase a variety of items, from books to groceries and clothing and has no expiration date.
In this study, you will be asked to read an excerpt from an article found in the media.
You will then be asked to respond to several questions pertaining to what you have read.
You must be 18 or over to participate in this study. All the responses you provide will be anonymous.
This is a study about impression formation on the basis of ID pictures.
Your task is to have a look at pairs of similar pictures and answer the corresponding questions spontaneously.
The whole questionnaire takes about 6 minutes.
Every participant has the chance to win one of three book- or CD-tokens.
All data are kept in confidence and are only used for research purposes. lottery
In this study, we are interested in what can be perceived about the mind of others from a single image.
The study will take about 5 - 10 minutes.
The image that you will see is chosen at random from a pool of various other images. It is possible that you might find this particular image to be mildly unpleasant. You can quit at any time without negative consequences.
"George Washington" always refers to George Washinton. "He" can refer to any male. How good are you at figuring out what pronouns mean? Read sentences with pronouns and decide who they refer to.
Our study is about the risk of miscommunication. Miscommunication appears because people use different verbal probability phrases and interpret them in different ways.
Your participation helps to explore ways to reduce the prevalence and magnitude of such communication errors.
participaion takes only 10 minutes