Internet Experiments

External Internet Experiment

Participants log into the experiment from the outside world. It is often impossible to reward them, to control them, to check the validity of their answers.
However you have a huge subject pool

Internal Internet Experiment

Internet facilities, like WWW-broswers and servers, are used within the experimental laboratory to conduct an experiment. Thus, control and reward of subjects is possible

We have some specific infomation concerning WWW moderated internal experiments

How to do internet experiments

• How to Put Questionnaires on the Internet by Paul Kenyon, Plymouth University
• Research Methods Using Computer Networks by Mitchell, Paprzycki, Duckett
• Psychresearch-Online. These are web pages for a discussion group on the conduct of psychological research over the internet.

Lists of internet experiments

• Psychological Research on the Net at the American Psychological Society
• Online Social Psychology Studies at the Social Psychology Network.
• research in progress at psycresearch online
• Untersuchungen, die im Internet durchgeführt werden (in german) at the Universität Gießen

Links to some experimental servers

Economics

• Austrian Political Stock Markets/Austrian Electronic Markets
• Entscheidungsspiel im Internet (Humboldt Uni Berlin)
• Soccer Market '98 (Humboldt Uni Berlin) (if you can not read it, try reading it with Lynx)

Psychology

• Logical Thinking in Bonn
• Logical Thinking in Mannheim
• Laboratory of Social Psychology in Jena
• Experimental Server in Trier
• Max-Planck-Institut für biologische Kybernetik in Tübingen
• Online Neuropsychology Project
• Web's Experimental Psychology Lab at the Universität Tübingen
• Online Social Psychology Studies in Wesleyan