Where to participate in studies online?

March 11, 2011 3:23 PM

Back in the day, I really enjoyed popping over to my university's psych department and participating in the studies. I've found a couple of websites where surveys for psych studies are posted online. I'm wondering if there are other such websites, posting surveys for studies in any academic field.

I'll do any kind of survey as long as it's legitimately tied to an academic purpose (no marketing crap, please). If there are other fields of study besides psychology that utilize surveys to gather data, and their surveys are posted online, show me the way!

In case anyone is wondering, I genuinely enjoy completing these surveys. It's a weird little hobby of mine. I'm not out to troll anyone's grad thesis projects.

posted by keep it under cover to Science & Nature (7 answers total)

The Cambridge Online Survey of World Englishes
posted by ootandaboot at 3:35 PM on March 11, 2011

Sort of shameless plug for my own stuff, but I've recently started listing online studies for some of my students. There should be a few more studies up there by next week. Another place to check would be Amazon's mechanical turk as a lot of social science researchers have started looking into data collection via that route.
posted by bizzyb at 4:11 PM on March 11, 2011

Implicit.harvard.edu
posted by bilabial at 8:10 PM on March 11, 2011

• yourmorals.org
• The Moral Sense Test
• Yale School of Management eLab
• The Harvard CLER lab sometimes has online studies.
• Project Implicit

Many people run things on MTURK -- searching for "psychology" there would be a good way to find them.
posted by myeviltwin at 11:20 PM on March 11, 2011

Harvard's vision lab's website (caveat, my lab, not my experiments) Test my brain
posted by katers890 at 10:34 AM on March 12, 2011

Craig's List, typically in the volunteers section.
posted by unannihilated at 5:25 PM on March 12, 2011

Welcome to Project Implicit

Here you will have the opportunity to assess your conscious and unconscious preferences for over 90 different topics ranging from pets to political issues, ethnic groups to sports teams, and entertainers to styles of music. At the same time, you will be assisting psychological research on thoughts and feelings.
posted by aniola at 5:11 PM on March 13, 2011