Past Studies
| Date Submitted | Study Name | Research Type | End Date | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 03/23/2011 | Human Reasoning A short study on human reasoning. | Professional Harris, A., Hsu, A. | 06/23/2011 | |
| 03/03/2011 | Judgments of Interrogation Techniques The purpose of this study is to measure the impact of mortality salience on experimental subjects' judgments of the acceptability of torture, and specifically to determine if there is a greater acceptance of the use of torture on non-American prisoners relative to American prisoners. | Student Kristen Linn and Evan Harrington | 06/03/2011 | |
| 03/02/2011 | Personality, Emotions, and Politics Researchers from the University of New Mexico psychology department are conducting a study examining how personality relates to things like political attitudes and emotional reactions to common situations (like finding out that someone has forged a signature, or being romantically approached by someone you are not interested in). The study involves answering a series of questions online. The survey takes less than ten minutes to complete, and many people will finish in about five minutes. You must be at least 18 years old to complete the survey. | Professional Joshua Tybur | 06/02/2011 | None |
| 02/24/2011 | Amber Alert Research Request for participants: The Psychology and Law Lab at University of Arkansas is seeking individuals from the public to participate in a brief online survey evaluating public perception of the Amber Alert system. Participation in this study will take less than fifteen minutes, and the entire study can be completed online. Your participation and responses will be anonymous. If you are interested in completing this study you can access it directly by going to: [Link to Modified Informed Consent] Thank you for your consideration! If you have any questions about this study you can contact us directly: Principal Investigator: Amber Culbertson-Faegre aculbert@uark.edu Faculty Supervisor: Dr. James Lampinen lampinen@uark.edu 479-575-5805 | Student Amber Culbertson-Faegre and James Michael Lampinen | 06/01/2011 | |
| 02/24/2011 | Social Attitudes and the Punishment of Criminal Offenders This study is concerned with the attitudes people hold about the punishment of criminal offenders. It takes less than 10 minutes to complete. | Student Monica Gerber | 05/24/2011 | |
| 02/23/2011 | The relationship between risk-taking and on campus crime This study aims to investigate the relationship between risk-taking and being the victims of various on-campus crimes. | Student Kristen Ghersi and Perry Meyers | 05/23/2011 | |
| 02/19/2011 | Current Attitudes of the Criminal Justice System This short questionnaire examines participants' views about the criminal justice system and how well it achieves its foundational goals. | Professional Jessica R. Porco and Evan Harrington | 05/19/2011 | |
| 02/18/2011 | Have You Been Questioned for Jury Duty Within the Last Year? This study was designed to explore how people view the voir dire process. | Professional Wendy Heath | 12/31/2011 | None |
| 01/19/2011 | Information-Processing Experiment This experiment is part of a project in the Department of Social and Developmental Psychology at the University of Cambridge. Your data will help us obtain a better understanding of how people process information. | Professional Dr. Simone Schnall, Dr. Theodora Zarkadi, and Professor Adam Benforado | 04/19/2011 | |
| 01/17/2011 | Numbers Memory Test Scientists sometimes distinguish between two general types of thinking – quantitative and qualitative. This web-based experiment is focused on memory and, more specifically, how making qualitative judgments influences quantitative memory. After filling out some preliminary questions, you will be asked to try to remember a number – and then you will be given a scenario after which you will respond to a few questions calling for qualitative responses. At the end of the test, you will then be asked to recollect the number, as best you can. | Student Emily Hanson | 04/23/2011 | |
| 01/14/2011 | Predicting the Future Study This aims to understand better how people make predictions when given limited information | Professional Dr. Miron Zuckerman | 02/10/2011 | iPod! |
| 09/22/2010 | Me and my boss This Study is about your opinions, perceptions, and relationship regarding your immediate supervisor (or line manager). | Professional Sina Bader | 02/10/2011 | |
| 09/15/2010 | Does temperature affect voting Sunshine or rain, which is better for what kind of candidates? | Student Seth Sethingtoner | 02/10/2011 | |
| 09/15/2010 | What studies are the most attractive to potential participants A study on how to attract participants to a study | Professional Motly Searcher | 02/10/2011 | $10 |
| 09/15/2010 | Human navigation in virtual environments Welcome! In this experiment, we are asking people to play a short video game. The goal of this game is to help us learn more about how people find their way around new environments. | Professional Subject von Doesitwork | 02/10/2011 | |
| 09/14/2010 | Puntastic What makes some puns funny and others not? We'd like to know | Student Joshua Hartshorne and Jesse Snedeker | 02/10/2011 | |
| 09/14/2010 | Applying autobiographical memory research in legal cases: What specific details can adults recall of negative and positive childhood events? This study looks at what specific details adults can recall from both negative and positive childhood memories | Professional Gabriel Davies, Prof.M.Conway and Dr. C. Morrison | 02/10/2011 | |
| 09/14/2010 | Planning Experiment Help us understand how people think about time | Professional Christoph Ungemach | 02/10/2011 | |
| 09/14/2010 | Cheat the System If presented with a way to cheat on taxes, what percentage of people take the opportunity? | Professional Tell Tellington | 02/10/2011 | |
| 09/08/2010 | Estimating from Memory This study investigates estimation from memory. It takes about 1 minute to complete | Professional Andrew Brand | 02/10/2011 | |
| 09/06/2010 | Developing an Epilepsy-Specific Questionnaire 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 | Professional SallyAnn Wakeford | 02/10/2011 | |
| 09/05/2010 | Social Thought Experiment 2 You are invited to participate in a thought experiment. Participants will be asked to read a short story and answer some questions. The study is expected to take approximately 15 minutes to complete. | Student Miss Japinder Dhesi | 02/10/2011 | free coffee |
| 08/26/2010 | What do we mean when we use the word privacy? 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 | Professional Asimina Vasalou | 02/10/2011 |