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Ongoing Research

new Perceptions of Eyewitness Accounts - Researchers: Wendy Heath, Ph.D. (heath@rider.edu) & Nicole Klaczany


Institution: Rider University
Brief Description of the Study: This study is designed to explore what people think when presented with eyewitness accounts of a crime.
Ethics Review Information: There are no known risks involved in participating in this research. Although the study deals with forensic issues, the information contained in the study is not graphic and there are no disturbing images. This study received approval from the Rider University Human Subjects Committee in May 2009. The contact information for this Committee is as follows: Dr. Gary Brosvic, Chair of the Human Subjects Committee, Rider University Psychology Department, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648 (brosvic@rider.edu; (609)895-5437).

 

Understanding People's Personalities - Researcher: Benjamin Voyer, London School of Economics

Description: The aim of the study is to get a better understanding of people's personalities. You will be doing two different studies which are unrelated.

 

Attraction: Face perception and hair color preferences - [added 1/10/06]

Disgust - from the BBC [added 1/10/06]

The Edinburgh-Southampton Social Psychology Web-lab - Researchers at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Southampton established this website in 2003 as a means by which to conduct social psychological studies online. Anyone 18 years or older is invited to participate. [added 11/12/03]

FacePrints: Study in facial perception - from Victor Johnston at New Mexico State University [added 12/03/02]

Comprehensive social list - Scott Plous maintains an excellent list of ongoing studies at the Social Psychology Network site

Comprehensive general list - John H. Krantz maintains an excellent list for APS of online studies across many areas of psychology including social psychology

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Resources and training for conducting research on the Web - resources from sessions at the NSF Advanced Training Institute in Social Psychology Experiments via the WWW [added 4/06/04]

Web-based data collection demonstration site - John Nezlek and colleagues provide an excellent look into web-based research, with some explanation of how it is done and some studies through which you can browse. [added 3/30/04]

"Conducting research surveys via e-mail and the Web" - a recent (2001) book made available online by the RAND Corporation [added 3/30/04]

Tutorials on Survey Sampling: First tutorial / Second tutorial - The first link is to a one-hour tutorial on "Survey sampling terminology and methods" from the North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness. The second link is to a tutorial on "Survey sampling: Precision, sample size and conducting a survey."
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SUSAN: An automated, online research participant sign-up system - Cornell has developed an interesting system for allowing students to sign-up for experiments, locate available experiments and receive notification of new experiments in which to participate. [added 7/16/03]

Doing Research Online - Jonathan Baron describes in detail how he conducts research online including descriptions of how to create questionnaires (using Javascript), creating forms for submission of results, methods of payment to subjects and more - find and participate in his latest research

Surveys, Scales and Tests on the Webtop

Questionnaire Instrument Compendium - Alan Reifman has created the most comprehensive list of social-personality measures available online. If you know of others, send them to Alan. [added 11/24/07]

You can find a variety of attitude measures and other scales (e.g., self-esteem, self-consciousness) online at the Social Psychology Network.

Finding psychological measures - good guide on how to find scales and links to some of them [added 1/15/06]

Here are some other scales I have run across:

Mate and sexual questionnaires - From David Buss' lab [added 7/6/07]

The Disgust Scale - from Jonathan Haidt. [added 1/15/06]

Perfectionism Test - from Psychology Today [added 1/10/06]

Locus of Control - can be completed and scored online [added 1/10/06]

Happiness/positive psychology measures - From Martin Seligman's Authentic Happiness website -- free "authentic happiness" registration is required to access the 18 different scales. [added 1/5/06]

Various psychological scales from Roy Baumeister and Dianne Tice's lab [added 9/15/05]

Self-efficacy and other related scales [added 4/06/04]

Stress scales from Sheldon Cohen and colleagues [added 4/06/04]

Short form for the Need for Cognition Scale [added 3/23/04]

Self-report measures of adult attachment [added 3/23/04]

Scales from Geraldine Downey [added 3/23/04]

The Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale (RCBS) [added 3/23/04]

How Shy Are You? [added 3/23/04]

The Aspects of Identity Questionnaire [added 3/23/04]

Scales from Dan Wegner - a few measures including the classic Hidden Brain Damage Scale [added 11/17/03]

Variety of scales - an updated list of almost 20 downloadable scales/measures for student use [added 7/23/03]

Altruism survey from Louis Penner [added 2/11/03]

Homosexuality attitude scales posted by Mary Kite [added 2/11/03]

Henderson/Zimbardo Shyness Questionnaire

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Demos on the Web

Stanford Prison Experiment - synchronized slide-tape narration (80 slides) created by Philip Zimbardo and Greg White with discussion questions

Interactive prisoner's dilemma - not only can you play the game, but you can manipulate a number of variables and select different strategies at this site

Interactive prisoner's dilemma - play the game; includes links to explanations

Social facilitation simulation

Implicit Association Test - "a device for exploring the unconscious roots of thinking and feeling"

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Resources for the Teaching of Social Psychology is a part of the CROW Project, Course Resources on the Web. CROW is sponsored by the Associated Colleges of Illinois and generously supported by UPS. This site was created by Jon Mueller, Professor of Psychology at North Central College, Naperville, IL. Send comments to Jon.