In this guest blog we hear from Dr James Bartlett about the importance of researchers sharing their research materials online. Thanks James! When we teach students about writing an effective method section, we normally emphasise providing enough detail to allow...
I did a BSc in Psychology quite a long time ago and although a lot of things have changed - such as the grey bits in my hair - I’ve noticed that at least one thing hasn’t. Most psychology students hate: Statistics Computer programming There were fifteen years between...
A research platform for studying how groups of people think, feel and behave together in groups. It works as an app that people can access with their smartphone. After logging in, the Hive environment displays a dot that can be dragged around. The coordinate of each...
The number beads game develops addition and subtraction maths skills in primary school kids. The minimal artwork is by design — to allow children to only focus on the maths. This game has been trialed in several countries.
Shop Builder is a powerful and easy-to-use tool for conducting research into shopping and consumer behaviour. It’s a sophisticated tool built for rigorous research. In a nutshell, to your participants Shop Builder looks like a normal online shop, but behind the scenes...
Economic psychologists and consumer behaviour scientists - welcome home! The Shop Builder is our new, unique Gorilla tool that allows you to easily create an online shop within minutes and use it as an interactive task where participants can browse through the...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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....
This webinar is all about speech production online. 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)...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
