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Online Research Experiments
In addition to traditional experiments done in our labs, many research projects in the Department are performed online.
We invite you to participate in these experiments to help scientific research by clicking on the name of the experiment below. In addition, you will get to know better the kinds of projects that are done in the Department in a fun and interactive way!
All experiments listed here have received approval from the Research Ethics Board at McGill University for the ethical treatment of human participants in experiments. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the faculty member listed under "Supervisor" for each experiment.
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Online Experiments List
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Food Choice Study
Supervisor: Thomas R. Shultz
Description: The Laboratory for Natural and
Simulated Cognition at McGill University invites 18+ year old
volunteers for an online food selection study. Participants will see
sets of food items with nutritional labels and select the preferred
product, then fill out a survey on basic personal information (ex.
age, sex, weight/height) after the food choice task.
Compensation: Nutrition and health related
information.
This experiment should take approx. 10-15 minutes to complete. Does
not require downloading software to your computer.
Go to our website to start:
http://www.lnsclab.org/FoodPref
Please e-mail:
allison.yan@mail.mcgill.ca
if you have any questions.
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Participants Wanted!
Details: We need both women and men, ages 18-40,
all levels of music of musical experience. You can't be taking any
medication (except birth control), and you can't have alcohol or
drug dependence. The experiment involves taking a single dose
naltrexone, a safe and widely prescribed drug for chemical
dependence, to study its effects on music. This research has been
approved by the McGill Research Ethics Board.
If interested, e-mail:
MusicExpt@yahoo.ca
Dr. Daniel J. Levitin, Dept
of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Avenue Penfield, Montreal, QC
H3A 1B1. Phone: (514) 398-6114
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McGill Social Psychology Labs are looking for Participants
To sign up, just visit our website, click on the link below, go to
"Get Involved" and complete our questionnaire.
www.socialpsychstudies.com
Please note: this is not an online experiment; it is an online
questionnaire that will enter you into a paid Participant Pool for
social psychology experiments being conducted by McGill psychology
professors and their graduate students. Once you complete this
questionnaire, you may be contacted and asked to participate in
experiments in person. Completing this questionnaire in no way
obligates you to participate in a study if you are contacted. If you
do decide to participate in a study, they provide on average
$10/hour as compensation for your time.
Psychology Dept., McGill University
Faculty Principal Investigator: Dr. John Lydon
For any questions, please contact the lab coordinator at:
lydonlab.coordinator@gmail.com
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Are You Rational?Supervisor:
Thomas R. Shultz
Description: This is a study of human
inference under uncertainty.
It involves answering four inference problems based on your
intuitive judgments, taking approximately 5-10 minutes.
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Thought
and Feelings about Self and Others (Social and Personality
Psychology)Supervisor: Mark W. Baldwin
Description: This is a study of attitudes and
feelings about self and others.
It involves simply filling out a set of
questionnaires, taking approximately 20 minutes. An explanation of
the study's hypotheses is presented at the end.
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