Browser-based Experiments
Gary McClelland
Social Brownbag, 18 Sept 2001
Advantages/Disadvantages/Issues
- Respondents other than Psych 1000 and
Generalizabiltity
- Inducements: Lotteries, Charity Contributions, Personal Feedback,
Good Will, Curiosity, Fun
- Rich multimedia stimuli and
innovative data collection
- Experimental control and procedure enforcement
- Procedures publicly verifiable ... and stealable
- Browsers compared to HyperCard, PsychLab, C
- OSX and Apache Server
Sources for Examples
Online Social Psych Expts
APS Psychological Research on the Net
Yahoo! Tests and Experiment Listings
Presenting Stimuli and Collecting Data
E-Mail
Electric Power Experiment
HTML Forms
Michael Birnbaum's Decision Experiment
Javascript Functions in HTML
Prototype Timer Limiting Search
Beth's Stock Story Experiment
Java to Control Stimuli
Gary McClelland's Graph Experiment
Rich Multimedia, Graphical Responses
Graphical Response Scales
Photographs (Prototypicality)
Quicktime Demo
Where the Data Go
E-Mail
This form
generates the following sample email
Sample FormMail output
Post/Get and CGI
CGI generated data file for graph expt
Log Files
Sample log file from Timer
How To
Birnbaum's Introduction to Behavioral Research on the Internet
Jon Baron's How To