Expanding possibilities in Cognitive and Social Sciences Research In the past decade, the cognitive and behavioural sciences have experienced a significant shift from conducting in-person lab testing to running traditional lab studies online. This transition has been...

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Online Behavioural Research Techniques
The COVID pandemic marked a step change in appetite for Online Behavioural Research. Not only did online methods become mainstream, but also many new possibilities emerged due to largescale investment in the sector. Researchers can now go far beyond surveys and...
The Curiosity Incubator: An Accelerator for Good
In late January 2023, I attended the pilot Curiosity Incubator hosted by Bridget Gildea, Visiting Scholar at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, Cambridge. Bridget’s big idea is to create an “Accelerator for Good” where innovation is coupled with behavioural...
How integrating Prolific and Gorilla allowed CX Lab to discover the color of money
Color, and the perception of certain colors, plays a huge role in business. Corporations spend billions of dollars each year choosing the right colors for their logos, marketing, and store design. The goal? To entice or influence customers to buy their products or...
How complex experiment designs are made easy with Gorilla
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 reconfigure task and...
Easily Pay Your Participants with BHN Rewards
Collecting High Quality Data From Your Online Participants If you’re building an experiment in Gorilla, you’ll need to decide how to recruit and reward your participants. If you want a random sample of a particular demographic, and you have plenty of budget...
Online vs lab-based behavioral research: Letting go of the illusion of control
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 testing...
JavaScript for Experimental Psychology
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 use experiment...
Using Gorilla to teach statistics and research methods
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 students gain the...
Gorilla Presents…COVID-19 Research
As we hit the 2 year anniversary of living in a pandemic, how are researchers using behavioural research to measure the impact of the pandemic and inform policy responses? Our expert panel share the results of their research into the cognitive consequences of long...
Gorilla Presents…Careers in Behavioural Science
In this webinar we hear from three behavioural science professionals about the work they do, their journeys from academia into industry, and some top tips for anyone considering a career change. If you are interested in using Gorilla for commercial research, this may...
Gorilla Presents…Participant Engagement
In this webinar, we hear from Andrew Gordon and Jo Evershed about how you can collect high-quality data from high quality, engaged participants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s95XIGkx_LM Many researchers worry about: * Finding engaged participants* That...
Will my research paradigm go online?
When you think of an online study, what type of study comes to mind? A questionnaire? A simple reaction time task with images and a button click? It’s easy to imagine how someone else can take a simple study online. But when you think about all the complexities of...
Can I take my behavioural research online without learning to code?
“Am I going to be successful taking research online. Are you sure it won’t be too technically difficult? I’m not a computer scientists and I don’t want to be!” - You, probably. I used to have the same problem. I wanted to take my research online, but I wanted to...
Gamification in Behavioral Science: An Engaging Prospect for Online Research
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced most behavioral science researchers to transition from in-person and lab-based testing to online research. The sudden explosion in the quantity of online research studies has inevitably affected both participant recruitment and...
Gorilla Presents… Game Builder and Multiplayer (Webinar)
Gorilla Game Builder allows you to create gamified versions of classic studies, increasing participant engagement and attention. Gorilla Multiplayer lets you create interactive tasks for multiple participants to complete at the same time - perfect for social and...
Gamified Research Series: An Exciting Future
In this interview, Jo Evershed talks to us about some of the exciting research that has been made possible using gamification in Gorilla and shares with us her vision for the future of the field. There is a growing trend for researchers in the field of psychology to...
Meet the Gorilla Support Team: Your Partners in Success
At Gorilla, we take pride in providing top-notch customer support that's powered by our in-house team of experts. Unlike outsourced solutions, our support team comprises highly qualified full-time members who are specialists in their fields. With backgrounds ranging...