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Ongoing Research


newMulti-factorial-decision-making-assessment - Researcher: Dr. Miron Zuckerman

Institution: University of Rochester

Brief Description of the Study: This is a study that Miron Zuckerman, principle investigator from University of Rochester, is conducting in order to understand better how people make predictions when given limited information.

 

Predicting the Future Study - Researcher: Dr. Miron Zuckerman

Institution: University of Rochester

Brief Description of the Study: This is a study that Miron Zuckerman, principle investigator from University of Rochester, is conducting in-order to understand better how people make predictions when given limited information. (There is a raffle ticket event in the study.)

 

 

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]

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

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

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

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]

 

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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

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 was initially 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.