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...

Gam­i­fi­ca­tion in Behav­ioral Science: An Engag­ing Prospect for Online Research

by Jo Evershed | Dec 15, 2021 | Behaviour Research Methods, Experiment Design, Gorilla Games Builder, Insights

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...

Timing per­for­mance of online experiments

by Jo Evershed | Feb 9, 2021 | Experiment Design, Featured Articles, Timing

 Are you curious about the timing accu­ra­cy of your online experiments? Online stim­u­lus and response timing is good enough for a wide range of behav­iour­al research. However, there are some quirky com­bi­na­tions to watch out for. We also make...

Main­tain­ing Data Quality When Con­duct­ing Exper­i­ments Online

by Jo Evershed | Feb 9, 2021 | Data, Experiment Design

Tra­di­tion­al­ly, most behav­iour­al research is done in lab­o­ra­to­ry set­tings. How­ev­er, in recent years, the pop­u­lar­i­ty of online research has been grow­ing, with more and more depart­ments and labs cre­at­ing and test­ing using online platforms....

Online Exper­i­ments and Bots — What Can Be Done?

by Jo Evershed | Feb 9, 2021 | Bots, Experiment Design

We under­stand that many users can be wor­ried about bots tak­ing part in the ques­tion­naires, tasks, and experiments. We’ve col­lat­ed some great arti­cles that explain many asked about ques­tions about bots — the why, how, and where? Sur­vey­Bots and How To...

10 Reasons Why Task Builders Are Better Than Writing Code

by Jo Evershed | Feb 9, 2021 | Experiment Design, Tools

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...