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Get started with Shop Builder: 3 easy experiments
Shop Builder is one of Gorilla’s add-ons, designed to provide you the powerful and easy-to-use tools you need to conduct excellent research into shopping and consumer behaviour. It’s a sophisticated tool built for rigorous research. To your participants Gorilla Shop...
Programming Online Behavioral Experiments: How to Decide Where to Deploy Your Time for Best Effect
Programming has fundamentally changed many facets of life over the last 20 years and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The field of behavioural science is no exception. Over the last ten years, many research software engineers have created products...
Gamified Research Series: Understanding Value-Based Decision-Making
In this interview Josh explains how he used games to add a realistic social dimension to his experiments and to make them more engaging for his participants. Josh has worked for over 15 years in both industry (GlaxoSmithKline, Nielsen) and academia (Trinity College...
Treasure Collector
Niko Steinbas at UCL commission us to create a series of Go/NoGo games that could be used to train executive function. These games are designed to be played by kids over 8 weeks with the games constantly adapting to the players level of ability.
How Online Behavioural Experiments Are Opening New Opportunities for Behavioural Economists
Picking a wine in a restaurant can be a nightmare, even if there are just three to choose from. Do you opt for the cheapest one, which sounds dependable? Or the mid-priced one that apparently goes with your food better? Or the most expensive one, even though it has a...
Gamified Research Series: Constructionist Gaming
In this interview Diana Laurillard explains why constructionist principles are so valuable to education and how they can be incorporated into fun games that people want to play. Diana is Professor of Learning with Digital Technologies at the UCL Knowledge Lab. She was...
Gamified Research Series: Investigating Language Development
In this interview, Professor Dorothy Bishop talks to us about how she has used games both for teaching children language as well as for keeping them motivated in psycholinguistics experiments. Dorothy is a psychologist specializing in developmental language disorders....
Gorilla Presents… Speech Production Online (Webinar)
https://youtu.be/1RDCWX2KfTU With the help of our experts: Dr Neil Kirk, Abertay University (twitter: @DrNeilKirk) Dr Emma James, Oxford University (twitter: @emljames) Dr Abbie Bradshaw, UCL (twitter: @ABradshawPhD) Roger Hauber, Humboldt University of Berlin Here...
COVID19 was the push I needed to take my research online
Good science needs properly powered studies. Ten years into the replication crisis, we know this more than ever. Behavioural science can’t progress while we have serious doubts about the generalisability of our findings. We know part of the solution is larger...
How to add novel functionality to your Gorilla experiment with just a touch of code
So you want to add a bit of coding magic to your experiment, but don’t know how to begin? We are here to help you get started! We all know that Gorilla doesn’t require you to know how to code, but sometimes you want to add a little something extra to your experiment....
Gorilla Presents… Eye and Mouse Tracking Research Online (Webinar)
This webinar is all about conducting eye and mouse tracking research online. With the help of our experts: Dr Jens Madsen, City College of New York (twitter: @cogniemotion) Simone Lira Calabrich, Bangor University (twitter: @Simonecalabrich) Prof Tom Armstrong,...
How Taking Research Online Can Help Counteract the Replication Crisis
The Replication Crisis is the great enemy of behavioural scientists everywhere. More and more, we are finding that previous studies are either incredibly challenging or impossible to reproduce. But can the internet solve some of the challenges presented by this...
Top three considerations to maximise data quality in behavioural experiments
Are you confident your online experiment will get you the data quality you need? Check out these top three considerations when piloting your study. At BeOnline 2020 Emily Breese gave an insightful talk about piloting research. An often overlooked element of the...
BPS Cognitive Psychology Section: Helping Researchers Take Experiments Online
Has your research stalled? Find out how researchers have liberated their lab with rapid project grants! The past year has been a difficult time for behavioural science research. No longer being able to work face-to-face with participants meant a lot of research was...
Gorilla Presents… Audio and Speech Perception Research Online (Webinar)
This webinar is all about conducting auditory and speech research online. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8byQJ9ORok With the help of our experts: Dr Rachel Theodore, University of Connecticut (twitter: @rachelmtheodore) Dr Alice Milne, UCL (twitter: @aemilne) Dr...
How UCL turn first years into real scientists in just 4 weeks
First year psychology undergrads at a poster session. They’re in small groups and presenting a small research project that they’ve created and recruited participants for. They’ve even interpreted the data that an R script has extracted for them. Oh, and all this has...
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. Taking research online brings many benefits, that may cause researchers to think twice before automatically reverting...