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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.

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 01. 01. 2000 ::

The Faceprints Experiments. Juge facial Beauty ::

Victor Johnston
New Mexico State University

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 05. 04. 2004 ::

Beliefs in conspiracy theories ::

Patrick Leman
Royal Holloway University of London

This study takes about 10 minutes to complete. Participants are asked to read a brief vignette concerning the assassination of a hypothetical President. Then participants are asked to rate the likelihood of evidence relating to the assassination. Finally, participants are asked for their assessment of the likelihood of several real world conspiracy theories. The aim is to explore how far circular reasoning explains the attribution of conspiracy to explain events.

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Cognitve Psychology :: in English

:: 12. 10. 2006 ::

Eyewitness Recognition II ::

Andrew Brand
iPsychExptse>

The study investigates the effect of performing an attentional task on eyewitness recognition.
It takes just over 5 minutes to complete

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 11. 07. 2005 ::

Eyewitness identification ::

Michael Lewis
Cardiff University

How confident can we be when a witness says that they are sure that a person is the offender? This experiment explores the factors that determine the confidence-accuracy relationship.

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Perception :: in English

:: 21. 09. 2007 ::

Perception of Consensus in Argumentative Debates ::

Guillaume Cabanac
University of Toulouse (France)

The purpose of this experiment is to learn more about human perception of consensus in argumentative discussions. As a computer scientist, I intend to measure how close a "social validation" algorithm is from human perception of consensus. This study involves identifying and synthesizing opinions in argumentative debates. Completing the experiment should take around 30-40 minutes. You will be given a login and password, so you may interrupt the experiment at any time and come back later to finish it. Your participation will contribute to improve debates summarization algorithms, which are useful for reducing readers' cognitive load.
In order to participate in this experiment you will need the free Java Runtime Environment (a link is provided).

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Perception :: in English

:: 26. 11. 2007 ::

Geographic Reference Experiment ::

Kavita Thomas
Department of Computing Science, University of Aberdeenansonline.co

This experiment is one of several experiments conducted in the Atlas.txt project. This project aims to communicate information found in geo-referenced data (which is often visualised as census maps) as spoken text to make this information accessible for visually-impaired people. Your participation will help us to produce better quality texts.

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 29. 01. 2008 ::

Making Employee Promotion Decisions ::

Theresa Houlihan
University of Nebraska at Omaha

We are looking at how people make decisions as to which employees to promote. You will be asked to complete a judgment task regarding promotions and to fill out additional surveys.

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Cognitve Psychology :: in English

:: 13. 04. 2007 ::

How Does the Brain Read? (English) ::

Joshua Hartshorne
Harvard University

10 Minutes. In this experiment, we are testing a relatively new hypothesis about how, on the brain system level, reading takes place. Although reading is an important topic that has been studied for many decades, there are still many questions about how people learn to read. One potential application of our research is the development of new methods of reading instruction for people with dyslexia.

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Cognitve Psychology :: in English

:: 06. 04. 2007 ::

Letter Sense ::

Joshua Hartshorne
Harvard University

In this experiment, we are examining intuitions about letters. You will see strings of letters such as "rtrtrtrtrt" and make a judgment about them by pressing a key.

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Cognitve Psychology :: in English

:: 05. 01. 2007 ::

Describing objects for a computer system. ::

Kees van Deemter, Albert Gatt, Ielka van der Sluis
University of Aberdeen

Describe objects for a computer system, which then removes them from the screen.
Suitable for native speakers of English.

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Other :: in English

:: 06. 03. 2007 ::

Jurors' Non-Capital Sentencing Decisions ::

Valerie Perez
Florida International University

This study examines jury decision making issues, with an emphasis on jurors' sentencing decisions in non-capital cases involving sexual assault and battery.

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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.

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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

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Cognitve Psychology :: in English

:: 10. 08. 2007 ::

The influence of Medicine H on headache ::

Mimi Liljeholm
UCLAe>