Current Studies

Study of personality characteristics and attitudes. Involves completing two surveys; the first is completed immediately, with the second survey 48 hours later. Restricted to US citizens at least 18 years old.

15 min experiment to see how people pay attention to and remember images.

Gratefulness has been linked to increased levels of well-being and life satisfaction, however, the mechanisms through which this occur are not yet fully understood. This study aims to bridge this gap in knowledge by investigating a number of factors through which gratefulness leads to emotional contentment.

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.

Participate in our study to find out more about your personality and relationship style. At the end, you will receive feedback on 15 different aspects of your personality. Your participation helps us learn more about emotion regulation, which may help those who experience highly changeable moods – Bipolar Disorder.

This study is about your attitudes. You will be asked to write an experience of yours and respond to some questions.

Within the last decade ‘friends with benefits’ relationships have become apparent. However, little research has been conducted investigating this type of relationship. The aim of this study is to assess which factors best predict intentions to engage in a friends with benefits relationship.’  Age range for participants to complete this study is between 18-29.

In this experiment you will indicate your willingness to go on a date with members of the opposite-sex. It will take approximately 10 minutes to complete and both men and women can take part.

This theoretically driven piece investigates the relationship between psycho-social components and processes affiliated with psychological health and well-being. The study explores the predictive power of psychological flexibility, psychological need satisfaction, goal and aspiration type, and resilience in relation to psychological well-being, vitality and life satisfaction.

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 is a two part study and is an exploratory investigation about Facebook in the workplace. Each participant will be asked to complete two surveys. The surveys will be distributed two weeks apart. You do not need Facebook to participate, but need to be employed.

5 Minute online questionnaire with a short personality inventory, brand preference questions and demographic information questions. Very simple and quick to complete and would be greatly appreciated

A study investigating participants’ beliefs in and level of preparedness for the highly publicized end of the world as we know it on December 21, 2012.

This project aims to study public attitudes toward offenders in relation to individual differences.

Researchers from Deakin University are looking for individuals above the age of 18 to partake in research on non-suicidal self-harm. Participation involves completing an online questionnaire focusing on psychological and interpersonal factors that may be linked to the presence or absence of self-harming behaviour.

A study investigating the impact of motivation and personality on psychological well-being

This study aims to investigate first, whether the way we manage our thoughts and feelings is associated with our aspirations, sense of ourselves within our environment and ability to deal with aversive events and secondly how this relates to our sense of well-being.

The Experimental Economics lab at the University of Maryland invites you to participate in a new study about predicting the future! You’ll be shown a series of hypothetical potential predictions about winning a game, one at a time, and asked a few questions about them.

You are invited to participate in a study of the attitudes toward animals. The purpose of the study is establish the relationship between attitudes toward animals, animal abuse and aggression. You will be asked to fill in three quesitionnaires.

The purpose of the study is to learn more about the subjective passage of time. While actual time advances at a nearly constant rate, our subjective awareness of time passing can vary greatly