Online judgement and decision-making experiments. Birnbaum and his students continually post new studies of judgment and decision-making on this Web site. Implicit association test. Although the researchers are not collecting data on the site, it provides an excellent example of the potential of Web-based research. Online jury study.
Participants read a set of instructions about the guilt or innocence of an accused criminal.
They then read a story about the accused and answer a series of questions pertaining to whether the accused did in fact commit the crime and his or her possible motivation for the crime. Online language experiments. Kelly posts a number of changing studies on this Web site related to understanding the basic processes people use to produce and understand language. One set of studies, for example, asked people to say how they would pronounce a series of nonsense words. Another had people compare pairs of sentences that say the same thing but have different wording and rate the wording they prefer.