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archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 31. 03. 2004 ::
:: In a Defendant's Own Words ::
  Kevin O'Neil
Florida International University
  Read a small transcript of a defendant's testimony and decide whether he is guilty.
   
archived   Perception :: in English :: 21. 02. 2004 ::
:: The Present Perfect in English ::
  Katrin Voigt
Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
  People say: English has no grammar! I wonder why so many learners find the present perfect extremely difficult. I am interested in finding better ways to explain the present perfect. In this experiment the participant can a) test his knowledge of the present perfect, or b) learn a few interesting details about the present perfect.
Experiment created on a workshop by U. Reips on Internet-based experimenting
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 08. 03. 2004 ::
:: Environmental Decision Making ::
  Carmen Tanner
Northwestern University
  This is a study linking attitudes and moral values with environmental decision making. Duration: About 10-15 minutes.
   
archived   Personality Psychology :: in English :: 12. 04. 2004 ::
:: How do you react to other people's emotions? ::
  Josef Nerb & Martin Bruder
Universität Freiburg / Universität Cambridge
  Short online-questionnaire concerning reactions to other people's emotions. You will receive extensive feedback on your answers and will be able to view your personal results. Duration: 10-15 min.
Recommended survey study, feedback on personal results available
   
archived   other :: in English :: 02. 05. 2004 ::
:: Investigating eyewitness memory for crimes ::
  Marita Kenrick & David Mallard
Charles Sturt University Australia
  The aim of the study is to improve our understanding of how reliable eyewitness memory is, and about the factors that might make eyewitnesses more or less likely to be accurate in their memory for a crime. The experiment is divided into two parts, with the second half taking place after a 1-week interval. In part one participants view a slide sequence depicting a staged crime. Part two takes place one week later; in this part of the experiment participants are asked to make decisions concerning the staged crime viewed.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 16. 06. 2004 ::
:: Memory and Language - a Psycholinguistic Experiment ::
  Helen East
University of Cambridge, UK
  There are two tasks in this experiment - clicking on flashing blocks, and reading sentences one word at a time. It sounds simple but it can get a bit tricky! I'm interested in how language is represented in the brain, and what expectations we have about what is coming next... Limited to native speakers of English only, using Internet Explorer. Hope you can help!
20 mins. Native English speakers only.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 31. 10. 2012 ::
:: The Psychology of Fictional Narratives ::
  Jay K. Wood
AUT University, New Zealand
  The purpose of this research is to learn more about the psychological principles and mechanisms that are involved when we process fictional stories. The entire session will take less than 20 minutes to complete.
   
archived   Other :: in English :: 22. 01. 2013 ::
:: Video Game Play as Nightmare Protection: A Preliminary Inquiry ::
  Jayne Gackenbach
Carson Flockhart
  The purpose is to investigate whether heavy video game play will have a protective function for threat situations in dreams, resulting from heavy stress or trauma experienced while awake. We need participants who are first responders.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 25. 01. 2013 ::
:: Subjective Experience in Others' Memories ::
  Helen Williams
University of Victoria
  This research stems from our interest in people’s awareness of their own memory abilities, and people’s justifications about how accurately they remember something. You will be shown justification statements that previous participants made when they thought they recognised a word as being one they had encountered earlier in an experiment and your task is to decide which category their justification falls into from: Remember, Know, Familiar, Guess.
   
archived   Applied Psychology :: in English :: 22. 01. 2016 ::
:: Win 1 of 3 prizes of EUR 120 in a lottery! Participate in a Web-based study for academic purposes ::
  Baiba Renerte, Ulf-Dietrich Reips
University of Konstanz
  The study consists of five parts and will take about 10 minutes. You will be asked to provide your thoughts and opinions and make financial decisions. One of your financial decisions will be played out and also paid to you together with the lottery prize. The lottery will be played out after the end of this study (in the spring of 2016). All information provided by you will be treated as confidential and will only be used for scientific purposes.
   
archived   Internet Science :: in English :: 13. 05. 2016 ::
:: Can adverse experiences with online dating be predicted from message content? ::
  Megan Davis, Kevin Browne
University of Nottingham
  This survey is to investigate the relationship between online dating message content and behaviour on face to face dates. This research is being conducted with a view to increase safety of online dating. You will be asked about your online dating habits, your last face to face date with someone you met using online dating, and the content of the messages between yourself and this individual. In this instance, "online dating" refers to serious or casual dating via online websites or smartphone apps. This research requires participants who have used online dating websites and/or apps, and who have met at least one person from this method face to face.
   
archived   Developmental Psychology :: in English :: 20. 05. 2016 ::
:: Motor and language development in infants with family history of Autism Spectrum Disorders ::
  Klaus Libertus
University of Pittsburgh
  Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Kids’ Thinking Lab (KiTLab) are conducting a new study on how babies’ motor skills develop. In particular, we are currently looking for families who have one child with a confirmed diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and who also have a recently born younger sibling (less than 4 months of age). This study is conducted online and there are no regional restrictions for participants.
Study will be conducted via video chat (e.g., Skype). Interested families should contact us (see link).
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 09. 06. 2016 ::
:: Experience and Behavior in the Context of Work ::
  Barbara Aicher
Economic and Organizational Psychology, University of Salzburg
  an online study as part of the author's master studies in psychology concerning experience and behavior in the context of work. Participation will take approximately 15 minutes, and the only requirements are being over 18 years old and working. Through your participation you are supplying a valuable contribution in answering psychological questions at the chair of (Paris­ Lodron­ University of Salzburg). You’ll find the survey following this link, which you are also welcome to share with other potential participants.
takes approximately 15 minutes, requirements: being over 18 years old and working.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 31. 03. 2011 ::
:: Pilot Study C.A.T.S. on Student Life ::
  Céline Bagès, Annika Scholl, Tali Kleiman, and Saar Mollen
Université Blaise Pascal, Clermant-Ferrand; Knowledge Media Research Center, Tuebingen; Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Maastricht University
  This study takes approximately 5 minutes to answer and consists of two separate studies on student life.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 03. 03. 2011 ::
:: Behaving your way to happiness ::
  Kathryn Buchanan & Anat Bardi
Royal Holloway, University of London
  This research examines behaviours that can increase happiness. Participants will be asked to behave in a certain way, daily for 7 days and to complete questionnaires along the way. On completion of the study participants will be entered into a prize draw with multiple prizes of £50 (Non UK residents will receive the equivalent in Amazon vouchers).
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 16. 04. 2011 ::
:: Moral Perception Study ::
  Tor Tarantola
London School of Economics
  A study on moral judgment involving a short questionnaire. Expected to take about 5 to 10 minutes to complete.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 01. 06. 2011 ::
:: How do you decide on your new flat? ::
  Matthias Blümke & Katharina Groth
University of Heidelberg
  Multinational online-study on decision-making: Which flat would you choose and why? What is going on in your mind while you are deciding? Several psychological constructs are tested to better understand the decision-making processes. The study takes only 10-15 minutes.
You can win an Amazon voucher worth 20 Euros (30 USD).
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 14. 10. 2010 ::
:: Memories of your childhood ::
  Hartmut Blank and James Ost
University of Portsmouth
  You will be asked to provide details of your memory for four different positive or negative childhood events that you may have experienced (e.g., attending a wedding), along with some general ratings (e.g., how pleasant the event was, or how well you can remember them). This study should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 13. 06. 2010 ::
:: Judgments and Predictions ::
  Aaron Scherer and Abigail Evans
University of Iowa
  Participants will see a pair of artwork and then make judgments about the artwork. Participants will also answer questions about themselves.
   
archived   Clinical Psychology :: in English :: 24. 01. 2011 ::
:: Social Fitness: The Online Treatment of Shyness ::
  Peter Saunders, Andrea Chester and Ken Greenwood
RMIT University
  We are currently inviting people to participate in an RMIT research project aimed at helping people reduce their shyness. The treatment program is called Social Fitness and was originally developed at Stanford University Shyness Clinic. The program is a 9 week online intervention that will teach you skills to help you reduce your shyness. The program incorporates reading material, videos and activities.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 29. 07. 2011 ::
:: Effects of Subliminal Stimuli on Message Evaluation ::
  Franz Buker
Adelphi University
  People can be affected by stimulation that they are unaware of, which are called subliminal stimuli. This study is designed to look at how specific subliminal stimuli may affect the evaluation of essays written by college students.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 14. 09. 2012 ::
:: What Would *You* Do? ::
  Erika Koch
St. Francis Xavier University
 
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 29. 06. 2012 ::
:: Individual thinking style in relation to decision making and spontaneous or pre-planned behaviour ::
  Marek Sinason, Alan Wing
Birmingham University, UK
  The purpose of this online experiment is to examine the differences between individual thinking style particularly in relation to decision making and spontaneous or pre-planned behaviour. You will be asked to complete a series of short questionnaires on subsequent pages. Each questionnaire includes instructions on the type of questions that will follow and the way to respond (such as giving a rating on a 5 point scale on how much you agree with a statement from very little to a lot). These questionnaires include questions about decision making, preferences, mood, and the degree to which a number of different statements represent yourself and your approach to short term and long term decisions. When the experiment is completed you will be given more information about the research and its findings. All your responses to the questionnaires and personal information will be kept absolutely confidential. Your name will be converted to a code number, and only the anonymous group average data from all participants will be used for any published research.
Full debriefing and links to research are offered upon completion of the questionnaires.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 05. 07. 2012 ::
:: Person Evaluation ::
  Dennis Küster, Eva Krumhuber
Jacobs University Bremen
  You will see a picture of a person, and there will be 10 simple questions about how you perceive this person. Very quick and easy.
10 simple questions about a person
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 18. 12. 2008 ::
:: Evaluating an unknown disease ::
  Mirta Galesic & Rocio Garcia Retamero
Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany & University of Granada, Spain
  Imagine that the town in which you live in is affected by an unknown, deadly disease. The study will take at most 5 minutes of your time.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 03. 09. 2008 ::
:: Emotional expressions and audience effect ::
  Dina Dosmukhambetova
Cardiff University
  This is a study about the way people experience and express emotions in the presence of other people. Participants are given a chance to enter the lottery to win an Amazon Voucher of a £10, £20 or £40 value.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 27. 10. 2008 ::
:: Friendship Study ::
  Vera Sacharin and Richard Gonzalez
University of Michigan
  We study cultural differences in friendship. Currently, we are focusing on Germany and the US, but participants from all backgrounds are welcome to respond to the survey.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 19. 11. 2008 ::
:: Urgency Priming in the Wason Selection Task ::
  Christopher Peck
The University of East London
  This study examines people's capacity for intuitive and logical reasoning. It involves completing four logical reasoning tasks and should take no more than ten minutes.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 13. 12. 2009 ::
:: Character, lifestyle and health ::
  Marcia Pring
University of Portsmouth, UK
  Participants are asked to read a short text concerning lifestyle and potential health issues, and then to respond to a series of questions about the main character featured in the text. Questions about the participant's own lifestyle are also asked, together with demographic information (gender, age). The study is completed anonymously and takes less than 20 minutes.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 01. 02. 2010 ::
:: Is it fair? ::
  Freya Harrison
Dept. of Zoology, University of Oxford
  You are invited to participate in an anonymous survey studying what people perceive as a fair allocation of money, resources or labour. The survey should take approximately 10 minutes to complete. This study has received ethical approval from the University of Oxfords Interdivisional Research Ethics Committee (reference no. SSD/CUREC1/10-284).
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 16. 07. 2009 ::
:: Impression formation on the basis of ID pictures ::
  mirella walker
university of berne / university of baselonline payd
  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
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 23. 06. 2009 ::
:: Perceptions of Individuals with Cancer in the Media ::
  Sarah Knapp-Oliver
Mount Holyoke College
  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.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 09. 02. 2009 ::
:: Fear of a disease ::
  Mirta Galesic & Rocio Garcia-Retamero
Max Planck Institute & University of Granada
  A short study on fears and risks
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 28. 05. 2009 ::
:: Relationships and Information Processing ::
  Elle Boag
University of Southampton
  This study involves participating in a relationship visualisation task and completing a variety of questionnaires designed to assess information processing skills. The study typically takes 20-25 minutes to complete.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 06. 11. 2008 ::
:: Evaluations of responses to a breakup ::
  Stacey MacKinnon, Ashley Smith, Alison MacLellan, and Shannon Rhead
Department of Psychology, University of Prince Edward Islandansonli
  Participants over the age of 18 are needed for a research study on people's responses to a breakup. Each participant will be asked to read a hypothetical scenario that has occurred in someone else's life and answer several questions regarding their opinion on the situation. It will take approximately 15 minutes to complete this study.
   
archived   Other :: in English :: 11. 01. 2012 ::
:: Judging a Satisfactory Life ::
  Charlie Lea
Royal Holloway, University of London online payday l
  This short survey should take about 10 mins to complete. You will be asked to read short transcriptions of a person talking about their life and then respond to some questions. You will then be asked to complete 3 questionnaires about your thoughts and feelings.
   
archived   Personality Psychology :: in English :: 10. 06. 2011 ::
:: Emotional Experience ::
  Wing Yee Cheung
University of Southampton
  We are requesting your participation in an online survey, which will take about 15 minutes, and will ask questions about you, your emotional experience, and your goals. Please take your time to respond to the questions thoughtfully and openly. Remember that there are no right or wrong answers – so feel free to provide completely honest responses. However, you can also leave any questions blank that you strongly would prefer not to answer.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 06. 07. 2010 ::
:: Attitudes to drug dependence ::
  Tanzi Collinge, Lynne Roberts, Steve Allsop
Curtin University
  You will read a short scenario, and be asked about your attitude towards the person described, followed by a few questions about yourself. The survey takes only five minutes, and you can choose to enter a draw for one of two US$100 gift vouchers.
   
archived   Other :: in English :: 27. 04. 2011 ::
:: Responding to Moral Dilemmas II ::
  Martin Bruder & Attila Tanyi
University of Konstanz
  In this study we want to investigate how you take moral decisions. You will be asked to read a short scenario and then indicate how you would behave in this morally challenging situation.Participating in the study will require approximately 10 minutes of your time. At the end of the study you will be able to enter your name into a prize draw and, after the whole study has been completed, we will randomly allocate two prizes of €50 (or equivalent in your currency) each to two participants.
   
archived   Other :: in English :: 27. 04. 2011 ::
:: Citizen reactions to local community development projects ::
  Mark M. Fredrickson, Jake Bowers
University of Illinois
  A brief study on how citizens engage with, evaluate, and react to local development projects run by non-profit organizations. Expected time is about 10 minutes.
   
archived   Other :: in English :: 23. 11. 2014 ::
:: Discourse marker in product reviews ::
  Cathy Lyu
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
  This experiment aims to investigate the effect of the use of discourse markers in product reviews on consumer psychology.
   
archived   Perception :: in English :: 09. 10. 2012 ::
:: A pretest of sad artificial faces ::
  Dennis Küster (1), Christiane Windeler (2)
(1) Jacobs University Bremen, (2) Universität Bremen
  The aim of this study is to help us to make a selection of realistic-looking artificial faces for a later experiment. You will be asked to evaluate faces of 23 different virtual people. In some cases, we expect that the eyes will not look very realistic, in other cases the skin or the expression may be less than convincing. Completing the entire survey will take about 30 minutes. You will be asked to judge how realistic the eyes and faces look, and how sad the faces look as a whole.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 09. 01. 2004 ::
:: Obscure Fact Learning Study ::
  Nicholas Cepeda
University of California, San Diego
  Participants will learn obscure facts through a series of tests. This study consists of three sessions. Session one will take less than 20 minutes, session two will be less than 15 minutes and session three will be about 5 minutes long. Sessions will be up to one year apart, but may be as close together as one day (you will be sent a reminder email). Respondents are entered in a drawing for prizes (First prize: US $150, Two Second prizes: US $100, Three Third place prizes: US $50). You must be 18 years of age, and you can only participate once.
   
archived   Internet Science :: in English :: 08. 12. 2003 ::
:: Reliability of Outcome data collected via the Internet ::
  Kate Lorig
Stanford University
  Stanford has received a grant to study the quality of data collected on the Internet. To do that, they need people with ANY chronic disease to fill out a questionnaire just once. Participants will be randomized to either fill out the questionnaire on the Internet or by US Mail, and will receive a $10 Amazon.com gift certificate in appreciation. This study will help Stanford learn more about conducting research on-line for people with chronic health conditions. Participants must live in the United States and NOT be a participant in any of their other studies. If you are interested yourself or can help recruit, please visit our HealthyLiving website.
Restricted to US residents only
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 30. 09. 2003 ::
:: Rapid Impressions ::
  Joel Weinberger
Adelphi University
  We are interested in determining the extent to which quick, immediate impressions can influence people's reactions to politicians. You will look at a picture of a politician three times. You may or may not recognize him. Afterwards, we will ask you a series of questions about him.
Requires knowledge about US politicians and political affiliation with a US party
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 23. 09. 2004 ::
:: Acceptability judgments of referring phrases ::
  Albert Gatt
Information Technology Research Institute, University of Brightonan
  Participants are asked to rate conjoined noun phrases (of the form "the X and the Y") for their acceptability, i.e. the likelihood of these phrases ever being encountered in real situations. This is done by (a) assigning a phrase a number reflecting their acceptability and/or (b) displaying the degree of acceptability of the phrase visually on a slider.
Participants who complete the experiment are entered into a prize draw for a £15 ($27) electronic book voucher from amazon.co.uk. Winners will be contacted by email.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 23. 08. 2004 ::
:: In Good Times and Bad: A Study on Relationship Optimism ::
  Philip Brömer
Department of Psychology, University of Tübingenonli
  The aim of this study is to learn more about sources of optimism (and pessimism) in close relationships. Most relationships have peaks and downs. We want to learn more about your general beliefs about the "fate" of close relationships, and, specifically, about how you personally construe the future of your own relationship. Such construals may be time-dependent and may be biased by current feelings of satisfaction.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 22. 04. 2005 ::
:: Memory study with feedback ::
  Bem P. Allen
Western Illinois University
  Participants memories for lists of words that revolve around different themes are subjected to tests. Performance feedback is available.
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 23. 06. 2005 ::
:: Attitudes Survey ::
  Cornelia Betsch
University of Heidelberg/Erfurt, Germanyonline payda
  Please let us know your attitudes and win one of four AMAZON.com gift certificates (20 US$). Duration: max. 10 minutes.
Please let us know your attitudes and win one of four AMAZON.com gift certificates ($20). Duration: max. 10 minutes.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 08. 08. 2005 ::
:: Alien Racers ::
  Ed Vul
University of California, San Diego; Dept. of Psychologyansonline.c
  You will learn which "alien racers" are the fastest by crafting or observing head-to-head races. This study has many test trials, and may take from 30 minutes up to an hour.
UCSD Attention Lab
   
archived   Social Psychology :: in English :: 04. 07. 2002 ::
:: Self Disclosure Scale Pilot Study ::
  Tom Buchanan
Department of Psychology, University of Westminster
  This project is intended to give us some information about how willing people are to disclose certain types of information. Participants will be asked to indicate the extent to which they a) would be willing to disclose information about various social behaviours, and b) think it is likely that people would have done these behaviours. Participation should take about 10-15 minutes.
The study has now been completed. Clicking on the link will take you to a summary of the project.
   
archived   Cognitve Psychology :: in English :: 12. 02. 2003 ::
:: ErgoScenes ::
  Dietmar Gude
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