Emotional Experiences: Evaluating Scales to Discern Population Norms

Daniel Zahra (The University of Plymouth).

This study aims to assess the relationships between different aspects of emotional experiences and provide population norms for the scales used.

Objects and Concepts

Dr. Daniel Grühn (North Carolina State University, USA).

People differ in their interpretation of objects and concepts. We are interested in how certain factors (e.g., gender, age) influences perception. The survey will take about 10 minutes.

Vague Use of Language 

Kris Liu (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

This survey is on how people comprehend verbal information when it is hedged or somehow expressed with imprecise or vague language.

How do you Choose your Lottery Numbers? 

Helen Soteriou (City University).

Study looking at decision-making in a gambling context.

The Experience of Privacy 

Asimina Vasalou, Etienne Roesch and Adam Joinson (University of Bath)

We are conducting research to understand the subjective experience that follows a privacy violation. If you have experienced a privacy violation in the past you are eligible for taking part in our study. It takes about 15 minutes to complete.

Attitudes to Smoking 

Zainab Noor (University College London)

Study assessing how you respond to smoking and non-smoking related images.

Sleep Study 

SallyAnn Wakeford (University of Bath)

I would like to hear from adults over the age of 18 years who do not have a diagnosis of epilepsy or autism and would be willing to complete a questionnaire which investigates sleep and behaviour. The research aims to investigate the way that sleep is related to patterns of behaviour in adults with and without a diagnosis of epilepsy.

Multi-factorial Decision Making Assessment 

Dr. Miron Zuckerman (University of Rochester, NY, USA)

This study aims to understand better how people make predictions when given limited information.

Personality Characteristics of Human  Models and Virtual Models 1

Personality Characteristics of Human  Models and Virtual Models 2

Dr Etta Drews (University of Sunderland)

Participants will be asked to rate on a scale of 1 to 7 personality characteristics of human and virtual models male and female with and without tattoos

Predicting the Future Study

Dr. Miron Zuckerman (Rochester University, New York, USA)

This aims to understand better how people make predictions when given limited information

Perception of Male Faces

Graham Frize Institution (City University, London and and CNWL NHS Trust)

This 10 minute study will present computer-simulated images of male faces and record responses to them (ratings and/or reaction times)

Puntastic!

Joshua Hartshorne and Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University)

What makes some puns funny and others not? We'd like to know

Pronoun Sleuth

Joshua Hartshorne and Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University)

George Washington always refers to George Washinton. "He" can refer to any male. How good are you at figuring out what pronouns mean?

Applying autobiographical memory research in legal cases: What specific details can adults recall of negative and positive childhood events?

Gabriel Davies, Prof.M.Conway and Dr. C. Morrison (Leeds University)

This study looks at what specific details adults can recall from both negative and positive childhood memories

Planning Experiment

Christoph Ungemach (Warwick University)

Help us understand how people think about time

Subjective Experiences of Memory

Helen Williams and Chris Moulin (University of Leeds)

This research stems from our interest in people's awareness of their own memory abilities, and people's 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, Guess

What do we mean when we use the word privacy?

Asimina Vasalou (University of Bath)

You will be presented with features of privacy that were most commonly mentioned by participants of a previous study. You will then be asked to rate how central each feature is to privacy. Takes no more than 20 minutes

Participants should be people who have been raised and are currently living in the UK

Holiday Plans

Christoph Ungemach (Warwick University)

The very short survey (only 3 questions) about your holiday plans this summer

Estimating from Memory

Andrew Brand (iPsychExpts)

This study investigates estimation from memory. It takes about 1 minute to complete

Developing an Epilepsy-Specific Questionnaire

SallyAnn Wakeford (University of Bath)

Study for adults with epilepsy who would be willing to complete a questionnaire which investigates how epilepsy affects the way we think and behave. The research aims to develop an epilepsy-specific way of measuring cognitive and behavioural abilities to reduce chances of a misdiagnosis and improving what treatments are offered

Language, Strewth and Logic: The Effect of Priming on Dual Process

Christopher Peck (The University of East London)

A flash based study concerning the effect priming has on relevance heuristics which are thought to confound rational decision making in the Wason selection task

Colour Naming

Tobias Richter (University of Cologne, Germany) & Rolf A. Zwaan (Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands)

In this study, we are interested in how people name colours. Images of different colours will be presented on the screen. We kindly ask you to name each of these colours

Judgments under Uncertainty Study

Gary Brase (Kansas State University, USA)

The purpose of this study is to learn about how different ways of presenting information lead to differences in how people make judgments and reason about situations

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

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

Credit Card Experiment

Neil Stewart (Warwick University)

The survey is about how people make decisions about their credit card repayments

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.

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.

Person Knowledge and Face Recognition

Dr Cath Haslam, Dr Tim Hodgson, Sarah Bate & Nicola Gregory (University of Exeter).

Dr Cath Haslam, Dr Tim Hodgson, Sarah Bate & Nicola Gregory (University of Exeter).

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.

Relative Judgment using Hot or Not 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.

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.

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.

The Attention Game

Professor Mara Mather (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

This 5-minute study investigates factors that influence attention to pictures.

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.

Estimating Chance Events Study

Ulrike Hahn (Cardiff University)

The study involves providing 3 estimations of the likelihood of an event occurring.

Causal Chain Study

Peter White (Cardiff University)

For 2 scenarios, you are asked to judge which factors caused the outcome described in the scenario.

Memory lane

Katrina Walker & Dr. Catriona Morrison (Leeds University)

An online study investigating the nature of early childhood memories.