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archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 19. 05. 2007 ::
:: Intuitions about Mental States ::
  Edouard Machery
University of Pittsburgh
  We are interested in how people ascribe mental states to robots by comparison to humans. Subjects are randomly ascribed to one of 4 conditions (2 mental states, robot vs. human). They read a short text and answer 2 questions about mental states. Then they have to answer a few biographical questions.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 10. 05. 2007 ::
:: Rating the Attractiveness or Dominance of Men ::
  Sarah Evans
Northumbria University
  This study involves rating the attractiveness or dominance of 15 men.
This study takes less than 5 minutes to complete
   
archived   Clinical Psychology :: in English :: 20. 04. 2007 ::
:: Therapy Dropout Prevention ::
  David Hardisty
Columbia University
  The study involves different ways of accessing a research article, reading a clinical vignette and answering some questions in two sessions (a week apart), with a total duration of about 25 minutes. To participate in this study you must be either a mental health practitioner or professional-in-training and be at least 18 years old. Also, you must NOT be currently employed as a mental health researcher. Compensation is a chance to win one of four $50 gift certificates to Amazon.com.
professional psychologists only
   
archived   Applied Psychology :: in English :: 25. 01. 2007 ::
:: How much of a bonus would you give a manager? ::
  Clara Kulich
University of Exeter
  In this study we look into performance-based pay in leadership positions. You will be presented by a story about a manager and then asked about how much you would pay the manager. It takes about 10 minutes to take part.
Participants should have at least four years of full-time work-experience in a company.
   
archived   Perception :: in English :: 23. 02. 2007 ::
:: The Time Course of Visual Short Term Memory ::
  Joshua Hartshorne
Harvard University
  The experiment takes about 5 minutes. You will see pictures of four objects. After a brief delay (blank screen), you will be shown one object and asked if it is one of the four you just saw. There are 10 practice trials and 40 experimental trials.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 03. 04. 2007 ::
:: Rapid Reading ::
  Joshua Hartshorne
Harvard University
  Humans can read remarkably fast. In this experiment, we test your ability to read rapidly-presented letters. Participation takes 2-3 minutes.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 07. 03. 2007 ::
:: Time perspective, saving money and the environment ::
  Anna Rabinovich
University of Exeter, UK
  This survey is part of a research project being conducted at the University of Exeter investigating the perception of time and its effects on different kinds of behaviour.
   
archived   Other :: in English :: 09. 03. 2007 ::
:: Female Violence & Antisocial Behaviour ::
  Abigail Thornton
University of Central Lancashire, UK
  Research suggests men are generally more violent than women, but female violence also occurs and may be underreported. This study investigates women's involvement in violent and antisocial behaviour. Both men & women are asked to respond to questions regarding female perpetration of (a) general violence, (b) partner violence, (c) antisocial behaviour & (d) hate crimes. Takes approx. 15-20 minutes to complete.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 26. 02. 2007 ::
:: Eyewitness Identification from a Video ::
  Andrew Brand
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  This study investigates the effect of performing an attentional task on eyewitness identification.
This study takes just under 2 minutes to complete.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 12. 12. 2007 ::
:: Reasoning with if-then Statements ::
  Klaus Oberauer
University of Bristol
  You will be asked to make judgments on a number of arguments, all of which have a conditional (if-then) rule and an observation as premises, and a conclusion. Your task is to evaluate the conclusion.
Takes about 10 minutes
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 03. 12. 2007 ::
:: Telling short stories based on pictures ::
  Albert Gatt
University of Aberdeen
  This experiment asks participants to tell a short story based on a series of pictures.
Takes 10 minutes or less
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 24. 03. 2008 ::
:: The impact of individual characteristics on one's perception of self and others ::
  C. Alix Timko
Towson University
  This study is limited to individuals living in the United States (do not have to be a citizen of the US) and over the age of 18. It takes about 30 min.
   
archived   Perception :: in English :: 15. 04. 2008 ::
:: Rhythm perception and cognition. A rhythm comparison experiment ::
  Christomanos Christodoulos, Georgios Papadelis
Department of Music Studies - School of Fine Arts - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
  We are inviting you to participate in this research project if you are at least 18 years old and have had any kind of musical education. If you do not comply with this requirements we would like to thank you for your interest and ask you not to participate. The purpose of this experiment is to understand how people with music knowledge can discern the differences between rhythms depending on their age, their music background and other factors and make judgments and decisions. What will you be asked to do? The procedure involves hearing 720 pairs of rhythmic patterns and rate their differences from 1 to 5. Because the number of the rhythmic pairs is large you will be asked to make an account giving you the possibility to quit the experiment and resume it anytime you like without losing any progress you've made.
This study is limited to people with any music knowledge or experience.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 03. 09. 2008 ::
:: Explanation for contradiction ::
  Qun Yang; Adam Darlow
Brown University
  This is part of our explanation for contradiction research. We are interested in the general question of how do people generate explanation for contradition. In this survey, we need you to list different explanations for each contradictory statement.
   
archived   Applied Psychology :: in English :: 25. 06. 2008 ::
:: Making Decisions about a Crime ::
  Gary Brase & Adam Savage
Kansas State University
  The purpose of this study is to look at how different types of crimes are evaluated in terms of initial, individual reactions. You will be given a hypothetical crime scenario and the set up for the subsequent trial. Please answer the questions that follow as if you were a juror at the individual's trial. Once you have completed the questions about the crime scenario you will be given a short survey about your own views and beliefs.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 06. 08. 2008 ::
:: Perceptions of Obama ::
  Carlos Navarrete, Michael Mott, Melissa McDonald
Michigan State University
  Researchers at Michigan State University want to hear YOUR attitudes and perceptions about life--including what you think about Barack Obama. Let your opinion be heard by answering a short attitude survey that includes evaluating pictures of famous people.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 21. 07. 2006 ::
:: You say "probable", I say "likely" ::
  Stefanie Wöhrle
Universität Tübingen
  There is a risk of miscommunication because people use different probability phrases and interpret them in different ways. The different meanings that people associate with verbal probabilities often result in communication errors.
participation takes only 10 minutes!
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 22. 12. 2006 ::
:: The Attention Game! ::
  Marissa Gorlick
University California Santa Cruz
  Test out how attentive you can be and play The Attention Game!
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 04. 10. 2006 ::
:: Relationship Views 2 ::
  Michelle Luke, Katherine Carnelley, and Ms Elle Boag
University of Southampton
  The study involves engaging in a visualization task and completing a series of questionnaires about yourself.
The study has been approved by the university's internal review board.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 06. 10. 2006 ::
:: Causal Semantics ::
  Jared Hotaling
Brown University
  This is a study of how people understand certain words. We want to know what kinds of inferences are afforded by various words. Approx 8 mins, 1st 24 participants entered into $40 lottery.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 17. 08. 2005 ::
:: Perception of Social Interaction ::
  Fulvia Castelli, Ralph Adolphs, Alex Siegel
California Institute of Technology
  In this study you will watch a series of animated shapes interacting in a meaningful way. From these animations you will be asked to match the shapes based on various criteria.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 24. 11. 2005 ::
:: What does this mean? ::
  Merideth Gattis
Cardiff University
  Why are people so good at reasoning with diagrams? This experiment investigates one hypothesis. Note this study only takes 1 to 2 minutes to complete.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 18. 04. 2006 ::
:: Inferential Reasoning from Story Reading ::
  Cristina Moya
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