How complex experiment designs are made easy with Gorilla

by Jo Evershed | Jan 9, 2023 | Experiment Design, Tools

Gorilla is an experiment design tool, not just a task build­ing or ques­tion­naire tool. This is one of the biggest dif­fer­ences between it and other tools avail­able for hosting online exper­i­ments. The Experiment Builder tools allow you to cre­ative­ly...

UCL First-Year Stu­dents Use Gorilla to Deter­mine What Works in Char­i­ta­ble Giving

by Jo Evershed | Oct 11, 2022 | Gorilla Teaching Case Studies

First-year stu­dents at UCL Exper­i­men­tal Psy­chol­o­gy demon­strat­ed real-world results from their text­books with Gorilla. “Gorilla has allowed our stu­dents to follow their sci­en­tif­ic curios­i­ty, and be reward­ed with real data, from the very first stages of...

Online vs lab-based behav­ioral research: Letting go of the illu­sion of control

by Jo Evershed | Sep 8, 2022 | Featured Articles, Online Research

Some researchers have resist­ed the move to online research over the last few years, but the COVID crisis has forced many to switch to online methods. However, one ques­tion keeps coming up: “Jo, is there a good way to monitor the par­tic­i­pant envi­ron­ment when...

JavaScript for Exper­i­men­tal Psychology

by Jo Evershed | Apr 5, 2022 | Behaviour Research Methods, Insights, Online Research, Tutorial

Your first step into pro­gram­ming online experiments.Many exper­i­men­tal psy­chol­o­gists want to learn to code.  Favourite lan­guages are JavaScript, R, Python and MATLAB.  But why do so many researchers spend the time learn­ing to script when they could...

Using Gorilla to teach sta­tis­tics and research methods

by Jo Evershed | Apr 1, 2022 | Data, Insights, Teaching

An age-old debate is whether we should teach sta­tis­tics not using manual cal­cu­la­tions, but also using soft­ware such as SPSS, MINITAB, JASP etc. While many teach­ers and lec­tur­ers prefer manual cal­cu­la­tion, we believe there is a better way. We believe...