We've interviewed Gorilla users about their fascinating research, and how they think online research will change their fields. Find out more below.

Claire Gothreau

Gender and Politics

PhD candidate

Temple University

"Sexist events spur political engagement, particularly when paired with high levels of feminist identity development."

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Kyle Jasmin

Cognitive Neuroscience Researcher

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow

Birkbeck University of London

"People with unreliable pitch perception place less weight on pitch when perceiving speech, and more weight on a dimension they perceive reliably – in this case, duration."

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Kirsty Graham

Primatology, Comparative Psychology

Research Associate

University of York

Cat Hobaiter

Primatology, Comparative Psychology

Lecturer

University of St Andrews

"We used Gorilla.sc to test whether human participants 'understand' chimpanzee and bonobo gestures."

"We recruited almost 15,000 participants."

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Eva Poort

Psycholinguistics

PhD student (post-viva)

University College London

"The type of task you use influences the size of two well-known effects in the bilingual literature, the cognate facilitation effect and the interlingual homograph inhibition effect."

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Violet Brown

Speech Perception

PhD student

Washington University in St. Louis

"Perceptual and cognitive traits that are commonly used in individual differences studies appear to be unrelated to susceptibility to the McGurk effect."

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Mircea Zloteanu

Lie Detection, Emotions, Decision-Making, User Behaviour, Investigations

Forensic Psychology Lecturer

Teesside University

"We showed that not all “posed” emotions are created equal, and that research needs to consider this for us to have an accurate picture of human emotion recognition."

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Adrian Banks

Cognitive Psychology Researcher

Senior Lecturer

University of Surrey

"Understanding how we think can help improve it."

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Juliet Usher-Smith

Cancer and Cardiovascular disease prevention

Clinical Senior Research Associate (and GP)

The Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge

"We believe this is the first study to demonstrate change in risk conviction following provision of risk information."

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Maša Vujović

Language and Cognition

PhD student

UCL

"I am interested in whether learners are sensitive to these probabilistic patterns in sound and meaning in the language they are learning, and whether the ability to pick up on these patterns helps learners generalize."

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Alex Jones

Face perception, evolutionary psychology, computational modelling

Lecturer

Swansea University

"People unconsciously associate someone who looks Extraverted with words describing that trait. Using Gorilla, we are now expanding these studies to explain the effect using clinical populations.”

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Max Rollwage

Cognitive Neuroscience: Decision-making, metacognition, computational modelling

PhD student

Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging

"Our findings point to a generic resistance to recognize and revise incorrect beliefs as a potential driver of radicalization.”

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Sahira van de Wouw

Cognitive Neuroscience: Decision-making, metacognition, computational modelling

PhD candidate

Royal Holloway University of London

"I am investigating why people make suboptimal decisions, who is susceptible to suboptimal decision making, and whether it is possible to improve decision making.”

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Joseph Devlin

Consumer Neuroscience

Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience & Vice-dean (Enterprise & Innovation) for the Faculty of Brain Sciences

UCL

"We ran an experiment in partnership with Audible, that investigated whether people respond differently to emotionally engaging scenes when they are delivered in video or audiobook format. ”

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