The Cambridge-Southampton Social Psychology Web-lab's first study. By participating, you might have a chance to reflect on and gain an improved understanding of your own associations. Duration: up to 20 minutes. JavaScript and Cookies required
We are interested in shared beliefs about racial category membership. We are asking you to help us by viewing a number of pictures and telling us which race you think the person in the photo might belong to. Some of your identifications may be more difficult than others, so we are asking you to tell us how confident you are for each judgment. In exchange for your participation, we will tell you about some of our more interesting hypotheses, and you will have the option to learn more about our research as it progresses.
The task is a fun brain teaser that consists in finding, with three uses of a scale, the one ball that is either heavier or lighter than the rest of a set of 12 balls. The purpose of the study is to better understand how people learn to solve planning-intensive tasks.