Cognitive Psychology

Study on how you remember visual images: 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.

We are interested in how your memory might be affected by the physical activities that you take part in. This short experiment includes some questions about your sporting activities and a short memory task. Anyone can take part.

The word association task has a long history in psychology as a tool for investigating how people think. In this experiment you will be required to make word associations to a set of words. We will tell you more about the specific research question at the end of the experiment.

The following study has been designed to explore the nature of human decision-making under different choice scenarios.

Fun study asking you to listen to 6 one minute audio samples and give feedback about your emotional reaction to them.

I have a gallery of 60 faces and I’m looking for people to rate them on how human-like, strange and eerie they appear.

This research aims to examine the mechanism of social anxiety and I will be looking at the association between the social anxiety and the fear of evaluation from the others. If you feel uncomfortable to provide information about your social anxiety, you may not prefer to answer those questions. Your participation is completely voluntary. You are free to withdraw from the study at any time during the study. If you wish to withdraw after the data submission, you will need to contact the researcher and provide your codename before 1st of August.

A short computer-based experiment on learning. You play the part of a trainee observer learning to predict radiation flashes from distant quasars.

What do people learn when they watch videos? This experiment has you watch a video and tests your visual memory. See your visual memory results at the end!

This short survey investigates undergraduate’s knowledge about and use of mnemonic devices. The survey consists of multiple choice, short answer and rating scale questions.

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.

This is a survey on the study behaviors of undergraduate college students. Participants will need to respond to rating scales, multiple-choice, and free-write questions on their study strategies. Takes 10-15 minutes to complete. Participants should be current undergraduate college students.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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