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We are currently setting up a computer simulation to investigate the cognitive processes which are involved when people make numerical estimates based on specific information. The purpose of this experiment is to collect data which will be used in setting up this model
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Personality Psychology :: in English

:: 20. 11. 2011 ::

Emotional Creativity: An Exploratory Study ::

LaTasha Steven
Northwestern State University

This is a single-session study in which a number of different kinds of psychological tests and measures are being evaluated and compared with emotional creativity. To do this, we will ask you complete a short demographic questionnaire, the Emotional Creativity Inventory, the Humor Style Questionnaire, and the New General Self-Efficacy Scale. It will also include five exploratory measures: the Scale of Creative Attributes and Behavior, the Selflessness Scale, the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, the Spiritual Well-Being Scale, and the Religious Orientation Scale.

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 29. 06. 2011 ::

Application of the Modified Social Learning Theory to Pro-Environmental Behaviour ::

David Pescod
Curtin University

The study involves an internet based survey to examine whether a revised modified social learning theory can be applied to pro-environmental behaviour. Participants must be over the age of 18 and an Australian resident.
For participants over the age of 18 who are Australian residents

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 12. 08. 2011 ::

Friendships: Online and Offline ::

Jenny Chong
Curtin University

This study aims to compare the quality of online and offline friendships. Participation will involve completing a short 10-15 minute online survey. To take part, you must be between the ages of 18 and 25 and have an online friend that is the same sex as you.
For participants aged 18-25 with an online friend

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 26. 02. 2011 ::

Gender Roles in the Early Years of Marriage ::

Catie O'Neal
University of Georgia

Need married couples (very important for both spouses to participate) between the ages of 20-32. Can also register to win $25 gift card to Amazon.com

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 09. 02. 2012 ::

Global Living Standards ::

Miles Thompson
Goldsmiths, University of London

The aim of this study is to explore people's views about those around the world who lack basic resources, opportunities and rights. Your main task will be completing a series of questions. All you have to do for each item is to read a word or short sentence and then rate it on a seven point scale. There are no right or wrong answers.

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 29. 01. 2012 ::

Society’s View of Infectious Conditions ::

Fuschia Sirois, Laura Mitchell
Bishop's University

How are people with different infectious conditions viewed by society? Are people with tuberculosis viewed differently than people with the common cold? We need your help answer these important questions to better understand how society views people with different infectious conditions and how these views may impact their quality of care. Participation involves completing an online survey that includes questions about your opinions regarding how society views people with different infectious conditions. For taking the time to participate in this survey you will be given the option to enter a draw for one of two $50 gift cards for an online bookstore.

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Cognitve Psychology :: in English

:: 27. 09. 2012 ::

Learning causal relationships ::

Gy?z? Kurucz
University of Debrecen, Institute of Psychologyonlin

In the experiment participants can learn if a causal relationship between to events exists in a case-by-case manner. We are interested in the process of learning simple causal relationships. The experiment takes about 15 minutes.

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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.

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 23. 05. 2013 ::

International Students' Social Networks ::

Rajalakshmi Kanagavel
University of Hildesheim

My research project studies social support networks of international students, acquisition of resources in these networks and also finds how they are mediated. To be more precise, it examines the degree to which international students on an individual level choose among different support groups and prefer different media when communicating with them using ego centric social network analysis. Based on the network analytical support research with the data collected using an online survey, factors affecting transnational social support and also how relations, ties and networks as a whole are maintained by media usage will be found.

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Cognitve Psychology :: in English

:: 01. 01. 2000 ::

Visual perception: Ambiguous Figures Illusion ::

Internet Psychology Lab
University of Illinois

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 27. 06. 2004 ::

Sexually Explicit Material in the Workplace Survey ::

Monica Whitty
Queen's University Belfast

The purpose of this study is to ascertain individual’s views on sexually explicit material in the workplace, and the impact on having to witness sexually explicit material in the workplace. This survey should take approximately 10 - 15 minutes to complete.

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Methodology :: in English

:: 12. 12. 2005 ::

The Personality & Openness Study ::

U.-D. Reips, T. Buchanan, C. Paine, A. Joinson
University of Zurich, University of Westminster, Open Universityans

The topic of the study is personality and general openness. We will also ask for some demographic information (e.g. age, gender) and your season of birth, as well as some information about your use of the Internet. We would like you to answer every item in the survey using the response options provided. This survey comprises 7 pages which should take you around 10 to 15 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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Cognitve Psychology :: in English

:: 12. 10. 2006 ::

Eyewitness Recognition II ::

Andrew Brand
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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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Perception :: in English

:: 25. 07. 2006 ::

Perception of different arguments ::

Hien Nguyen
University of Aberdeen

In this study, you will be asked to evaluate the position and strength of some arguments discussing nuclear power and renewable sources.
it only takes 10 minutes to complete

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 18. 07. 2006 ::

Peception in Jury Selection ::

Sam T. Lewis
London School of Economics

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Other :: in English

:: 27. 07. 2006 ::

Experiences of Transitional Phenomena ::

Jennifer L. McManus
Alliant International University

This study is based on the psychoanalytic concept of transitional phenomena. The survey is in an early phase of development and is designed to understand how people use objects and music during challenging situations. Participants are asked to rate statements about special objects, music, and leisure activities.

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 09. 02. 2010 ::

Defining Forgiveness ::

Stacey MacKinnon
University of Prince Edward Island

I am currently conducting a study in the area of interpersonal transgressions and possible components of forgiveness and wish to recruit participants over the age of 19 interested in taking part. The study will consist of an online survey in which you will be asked to read about and evaluate one brief scenario of a transgression and complete several individual difference questionnaires. The study will take approximately 30 minutes of your time. Our hope is that this study will help us to better understand the effect of situational and relational factors on conceptualizations of forgiveness. Participation in this study is completely voluntary. You may stop your participation in the research project at any time, without penalty or prejudice. Your responses are anonymous and will be kept confidential.

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Cognitve Psychology :: in English

:: 05. 10. 2009 ::

Subjective Awareness of Memory Online Memory Questionnaire ::

Helen Williams
University of Leeds

This research stems from our interest in peoples awareness of their own memory abilities, and peoples justifications about how accurately they remember something. You will be shown justification statements and confidence ratings 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, or Guess.

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Other :: in English

:: 30. 06. 2010 ::

Parent confidence and child healthy weight behaviours. ::

Marina Nelson
Curtin University of Technology

The aim of this research is to gain a better understanding of the way parent confidence influences young people’s weight related behaviours, such as eating habits, physical activities and leisure activities. Learning about parent confidence is important; research has shown that parents are crucially influential on child weight behaviours. This research will increase our understanding of overweight and obesity in young people, and help develop better ways of assessing treatments.
Participants must be primary caregivers of children aged between 4 and 17 years.

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Other :: in English

:: 09. 03. 2007 ::

Musical emotions profiler ::

Marcel Zentner
Université de Genève

The universal appeal of music is largely due to the emotional rewards that music offers to its listeners. But what makes these rewards so special? We have done extensive research on this topic and invite you to participate in our research! You can do so by taking a test we call the Music Emotion Profiler. As soon as you submit your answers, the Music Emotion Profiler will display the profile of emotions that you feel when listening to a given piece of music. Curious?

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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.

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Social Psychology :: in English

:: 15. 04. 2008 ::

Risk inventory ::

G. Simons, B. Parkinson, K. Gentsch
University of Oxford

The authors are looking at risky decision making in everyday situations. The online survey requires you to make self-assessments of how you would respond in a range of scenarios each depicting a decision situation, for various aspects of both the situation and the decision you make.
Report on results will be provided upon request

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Other :: in English

:: 27. 02. 2008 ::

Probability Concepts ::

Adrien Barton, Nils Straubinger, & Uwe Czienskowski
Max Planck Institut for Human Developmentonline payd

Experiment about peoples' understanding of probability

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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

:: 20. 02. 2008 ::

Psychology of Remembering ::

J. Stephan Jellinek
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