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thoughts, ideas and inspiration for online behavioural science
Tidy your Gorilla data using R
10 reasons why task builders are better than writing code
Today many experimental psychologists and other behavioral scientists turn to task and experiment builders to help them create experimental protocols. But many don’t. They still prefer to spend the time writing their experiments in code. So if you’re still writing...
Tutorial for Conduction Online Speech Perception Experiments
Gorilla Sponsors the Psychological Science Accelerator for Rapid and Impactful Study Proposals on COVID-19
COVID-19 has left many people feeling scared and vulnerable. When faced with crisis, we can feel paralysed, but here at Gorilla we decided to do what we could to ensure that high quality research is done as quickly and effectively as possible. Ultimately, it will be...
How to hire a behavioural scientist
Stop using mTurk for research
A comparison of Tools for Behavioural Research
Musings on Online Behavioural Research This is an extract from our Gorilla in our Midst paper published in Behavior Research Methods. Is Gorilla right for me? In deciding which tool to use, the key questions to ask yourself are: Experiment Design: Do I want to code or...
So you want to run an online experiment
Can Humans Understand Chimps?
The Internet Is Enabling a New Kind of Poorly Paid Hell
The Business Case for Gorilla
The Gorilla Experiment Builder is a cloud based research platform that allows researchers and students to quickly and easily create and deploy behavioural (reaction-time) experiments online. In a nutshell, how does it work? Simply login to Gorilla using your browser...
How is Gorilla different from a Survey Tool?
The Gorilla Experiment Builder is a cloud based research platform that allows researchers and students to quickly and easily create and deploy behavioural (reaction-time) experiments online. In a nutshell, how does it work? Simply login to Gorilla using your browser...
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Complex experiment designs made easy
Gorilla Experiment Design Tool 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 Building tools allow you to...
Gorilla among MTurkers: Robust online data collection
Embracing online research during your PhD
The lab experience Traditionally, most behavioural research is done in laboratory settings. As a PhD student or a research assistant, you spend time designing flyers to hang up in your department, or use your university’s participant pool to recruit people to take...
Gorilla Participants, their devices and where they come from
Do you know your participants? Each time a participant launches a study on Gorilla, we collect some basic information about the equipment they are using and their location. We have collated and analysed summary statistics on around 200,000 participants whose data was...