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For questions about the application of specific experimental methods to study psychology.

For questions about the application of specific experimental methods to study psychology.

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Do people (under)value free stuff?

I recently saw this Ted talk by Esther Duflo, and in it Duflo tells of how she tackled the question in the title head on, in the context of health and disease prevention. I would like to know what other research has been done to answer the question:…
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Why do we use 3 channel R,G,B to represent color?

I read that there're some more colors which cannot be represented by R,G,B. What is the experiment that lead people to use 3 variables R,G,B? Can that experiment be replicated in other modals, such as what is the dimension of auditory perception,…
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Why does speaking with rhythm help a subject get into a trance?

Various hypnotism teachers tell you to speak with a relaxed voice with rhythm. You can see Derren Brown on this in The Experiment - The Assassin (from 4:48 to 5:40): Soft, rhythmical language, repeated phrases ... Also here, in a paper from Robin…
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How can self-awareness be controlled and varied in a laboratory setting?

I was reading on deindividuation and its relation to self awareness. In many places, in the text that I am reading, it is mentioned that experiments were conducted to measure the effect of self-awareness on deindividuation. I have been trying to…
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Do repeated measures designs in cognitive research permit causal inference?

Can someone please explain this to me because it's driving me bonkers. In cognitive research when one group of participants are exposed to a number of crossed factors manipulated by the researcher, is it a quasi-experimental design or a true…
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How to ethically research the effect of expert lies on lay people

I'm conducting a study about the effects of a verbally administered placebo. The actual setting and intervention are different from the example I give here, but similar enough that the example may serve as a basis for discussion. In the study, a…
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Split Brain Experiments on Animals

I was wondering what would happen if you took a split brain person and stimulated the pleasure center of one hemisphere and the pain center of the other hemisphere in conjunction with an external stimulus... basically Pavlov's Dog but applied…
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Has the John Calhoun's "Mouse Utopia experiment" been replicated? If so where, if no, why?

Here is a YouTube video summarizing his experiment. Over a number of years, the ethologist John B. Calhoun conducted over-population experiments on Norway rats (in 1958–1962) and mice (in 1968–1972). His studies describe the collapse in behavior…
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What important psychological results would not have been discovered without experiments on non-human animals?

Many psychological experiments involve shocking animals, playing loud sounds near them, depriving them of social contact, etc. For example, Martin Seligman's studies of learned helplessness in dogs are of this nature. However, to my understanding,…
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Go/No go protocol to measure inabilities

I am working on various experimental protocols aiming to measure ethically the threshold between the ability and inability to perform a sequence of tasks of increasing difficulty (See Ethical testing of (poor) abilities in animals other than humans?…
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What are the pros and cons of different programming languages for offline psychology experiments?

In terms of presenting and implementing experiments, which programming language is better? Note: What we are talking about is not data processing but experiment presentation. What I need: Experiments can be implemented on many computers at the same…
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Is there a way to test psychological theories online?

There are some online simulations in physics and chemistry, nearly all fields of science can be simulated online. I wonder if psychology can be "simulated" too, and I wonder if there is something already being used to do that.
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How to encourage people to experiment/try new things?

In a New York Times op-ed, Sendhil Mullainathan (professor of economics at Harvard) laments that it is difficult to get people to try new things or experiment. He gives himself as an example, saying that it is difficult for him to try generic soda,…
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When did the old term experimental reagent become experimental subject?

I've read a paper on an experiment called "The Feeling of Being Stared at", which investigates a concept which on Wikipedia is called the psychic staring effect. It was first investigated by psychologist Edward B. Titchener in 1898. The paper…
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What is definition of "excessive correlation" is Michael Persinger using?

I'm trying to parse the significance of Michael Persinger's work. From what I can understand, he uses toroids to create magnetic fields which can change the PH of spring water and change photon emission in brain tissue. He then applies this to two…
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