Cognitive Psychology (26)

 

Most recently added studies are near the top of the table

Date added Study web link   Researchers & University (all universities in the UK unless stated otherwise) Study description

30.06.08

Personality Surveys, Choices, and Response Time Tasks

Lisa Stewart (University College London)

A series of personality surveys, choices, and response time tasks which should take you about 20-25 minutes to complete. Scores displayed.

11.06.08

Thinking and Reasoning Study

Erin Beatty and Dr. Valerie Thompson (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

The study investigates how individuals evaluate and make conclusions about social science research

22.04.08

Reading Comprehension Study

David Miele & Daniel Molden (Northwestern University, USA)

The study involves reading a brief text and answering questions about it.  Takes 5-10 minutes

14.04.08

Rhythm Cognition and Perception Experiment

Christomanos Christodoulos
undergraduate (School of Fine
Arts - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

A rhythm experiment which studies the rhythm comparison and perception skills of musicians by having the participants rate the similarities between pairs of rhythmic patterns

03.04.08

Enhancing Public Safety Messages and Warnings

Roy Perry (University of Plymouth)

This research project investigates whether variations in word usage and structuring can improve how the general public respond to warning messages

31.03.08

Credit Card Experiment

Neil Stewart (Warwick University)

The survey is about how people make decisions about their credit card  repayments
24.12.07 How the Brain Reads

Joshua Hartshorne & Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University, USA).

How fast can you read? Takes 7-10 minutes.
18.12.07 The Effect of Colour-Coding on Word Lists?

Fiona Hancock (supervisor: Chris O'Donnell) University of the West of Scotland (Paisley).

Looking at colour-coding effect on word list recall experiment - takes a few minutes.
17.12.07 What do you expect where on typical websites?

Sandra Roth, Javier Bargas &Prof. Dr. Klaus Opwis (University of Basel, Switzerland).

With your help we would like to find out what expectations exist for specific website types. We hope the results of this study help to improve the usability of web pages and increase the Internet user satisfaction.

07.12.07 Boost Happiness in 7 Days? Simon Ursprung (University Bern, Switzerland). Different exercises to make people happier are tested through simple exercises.  You will be required to provide  your email to send you a remember mail for the exercise part of the research.
27.06.07 Person Knowledge and Face Recognition Dr Cath Haslam, Dr Tim Hodgson, Sarah Bate & Nicola Gregory (University of Exeter). To acquire participant’s knowledge of, and emotional responses to photos of famous faces.
27.06.07 How Do You See Yourself?
 		 Ben Rosser & Dr. Tim Moss (University of the West of England). This study consists of a selection of questionnaires exploring your perception and experience of your own appearance.
20.06.07 Find the Dax
 		 Joshua Hartshorne & Jesse
Snedeker, Harvard University, USA).		 Read sentences about two characters, and try to guess which one is the dax. Takes approximately 5 minutes.
19.04.07 Rapid Reading      Joshua Hartshorne & Tal Makovski (Harvard University, USA). Humans can read remarkably fast. In this study, we are probing how
attention affects reading. You will try to recognize very quickly
presented letters.
10.04.07 Letter Sense Joshua Hartshorne & Timothy Vickery (Harvard University, USA). When you learn to read, what is it that you are learning? In this study we examine how you interpret meaningless strings of letters. The experiment takes 5 minutes.
18.03.07 The Video Test  Joshua Hartshorne & Yuhong Jiang (Harvard University, USA). Perform a short memory test, then watch an animated short (i.e., film). Then fill out a short quiz. 5 min.
18.03.07 Time Course of Visual Short-Term Memory  Joshua Hartshorne & Yuhong Jiang (Harvard University, USA). Try to remember shapes. 5 min.
21.02.07 Shape Memory Experiment Stephen Darling, Sergio Della Sala & Robert H. Logie (University of Edinburgh). Try and remember the colour and shape of items presented on the screen. Takes about 8 minutes to complete.
14.02.07 Relative Judgment using HotOrNot Pictures
 		 Jose Quesada (Sussex University) & Neil Stewart (Warwick University). You are invited to participate in a research study that investigates how humans make judgments on attributes such as attractiveness. You will see pairs of pictures, and your job is to say which one of the pair you consider most attractive.
27.01.06 Human Memory  Steve Janssen & Jaap Murre (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands). The website contains a memory improvement course and several psychological tests, such as the Daily News Memory Test, the Galton-Crovitz test and the Favourites Questionnaire.
10.01.07 3 Experiments, Numerosity Discrimination, Recognition Memory, Lexical Decision Roger Ratcliff (Ohio State University, USA). Numerosity discrimination: Participants will be presented with an array of asterisks and then have to say whether the number is greater or less than 50.

Recognition memory: Participants will be presented with a list of words to study followed by a test list of words. They will hit one key to indicate the word was studied and another to indicate the word was new.

Lexical decision: Participants will be presented with a string of letters and they have to decide whether the string is a word or not.
24.07.06 Decision Making Experiment Christoph Ungemach (University of Warwick). Learn about the payoffs and probabilities of two choice options and decide which one you would like to play.
04.04.06 The Attention Game Professor Mara Mather (University of
California, Santa Cruz, USA)		 This 5-minute study investigates factors that influence attention to pictures.
23.01.06 Estimating Chance Events Study  Ulrike Hahn (Cardiff University) The study involves providing 3 estimations of the likelihood of an event occurring.
20.11.05 Causal Chain Study Peter White (Cardiff University) For 2 scenarios, you are asked to judge which factors caused the outcome described in the scenario.
20.10.05 Memory lane Katrina Walker & Dr. Catriona Morrison (Leeds University) An online study investigating the nature of early childhood memories.