Storytelling: Ways and Means
Time to complete - 10 minutes.
This study investigates how variations in language effect how stories are told. This task involves both reading and writing.
This study investigates how variations in language effect how stories are told. This task involves both reading and writing.
This research aims to understand the semantic relations between a two-word structure and a single-word structure.
We are studying the potential link between cognitive styles and belief in conspiracy theories. There are a 7 scales which are measured using questionnaires
I am interested in emotions and expressions and I want to understand more about how faces are processed when they display different emotions. This study involves looking at images of faces online and either answering questions about them or using them in a drag and drop activity.
15 min experiment to see how people pay attention to and remember images.
I am interested in people’s awareness and justifications about how accurately they remember something. You will see justification statements that participants made when they thought they recognised a word in an experiment, your task is to decide which category their justification falls into from: Remember, Know, Familiar, Guess.
This study examines the differences between individual thinking styles particularly in relation to spontaneous or pre-planned behaviour. You will be asked to complete a series of short questionnaires including questions about decision making, mood, and the degree to which statements represent your approach to short and long term decisions.
This study further expands causal learning investigations on continuous data. Participants will need to complete only one section of causal strength judgment between two consecutive events. Participation is totally voluntary and anonymous.
This study further expands causal learning investigations on continuous dimensions. Participants will need to complete only 6 questions on causal judgment. The participation is totally voluntary and anonymous.
If you participate in this study, you will play a simple memory game where you will see many images and be asked to remember them. This study is for only for people who have NOT participated our memory game before.
This study expands causal learning investigations on continuous data. Participants will involve completing one section of causal strength judgment between two consecutive events. The participation is totally voluntary and anonymous.
A psychology experiment in a simple game format. You play the part of Sgt PCMan on a mission to kill off game clones. Can you learn what you need to do to stay alive?
This study investigates ways of telling stories or recounting events. If you choose to participate, you will be asked to read a short text and write a short text.
This current study aims to look at memory recall of the World Trade Centre Disaster, September 11th, 2001 by asking questions such as: where you were, who you were with and how you felt. Your responses will remain anonymous, but demographic details will be used.
This study investigates how our beliefs about individual faces are related to how we process them. Participation involves viewing images of faces and rating them according to your own perceptions or beliefs. For example, judging the similarity between two faces or judging how honest a person’s face looks
We are interested in exploring the types of details that people remember when recalling their memories of early childhood. This study asks you for a description of FOUR such early memories (two emotionally positive, two emotionally negative), and answer a short set of questions about each of these memories.
The purpose of this study is to help us understand how people assess the likelihood of various events. In this study, you will be reading very short passages and estimating the probability of various events. We hope this research will help us better understand how people approach probability assessments.
Questionnaire consists of a series of photographic images of vintage objects (1930s to 60s). Participants are asked if memories are triggered and if so from approximate date. We are hoping to stimulate memories from the ‘reminiscence bump’ i.e.when approximately 10 – 30 years of age.
George Washington always refers to George Washington. He can refer to any male. How good are you at figuring out what pronouns mean?
This study aims to assess how much mental effort is involved in maintaining friendships and kinships. We wish to explore whether the system of kinship is a schema, enabling the cognitive load of these relationships to be reduced and the expansion of the social network.