Human research and data collection via the internet.

By Michael H. Birnbaum. Annual Review of Psychology, 2004

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Working memory tasks differ in factor structure across age cohorts: Implications for dedifferentiation. (2010, background): “Collecting psychological data over the internet is becoming increasingly common (see Birnbaum, 2004; Reips, 2002; Skitka & Sargis, 2006).”
Gender, Sexual Affect, and Motivations for Internet Pornography Use (2008, methodology): “This identification number and password system served two purposes: 1) it protected the confidentiality of respondents’ answers, and 2) it allows for the filtration of participants who submitting multiple responses (Birnbaum, 2004).”
The Prevalence of Lying in America: Three Studies of Self-Reported Lies (2010, background): “Birnbaum (2004) provides an argument for representativeness when the results are homogeneous across strata.”
"Cargo Cult" science in traditional organization and information systems survey research: A case for using nontraditional methods of data collection, including Mechanical Turk and online panels (2016, background): “…examinations that compared Internet-based samples to those from traditional sources (Buchanan & Smith, 1999a; Meyerson & Tryon, 2003; Stanton, 1998), with many guidelines and recommendations provided for the latter (Birnbaum, 2004; Buchanan & Smith, 1999b; Reips, 2002; Skitka & Sargis, 2006).”
Measuring Meaning in Life (2009, background): “Despite certain limitations, online research is increasingly regarded as an efficient means of acquiring large and sufficiently diverse samples at relatively little cost ( Birnbaum 2004 ).”
Strengths Gym: The impact of a character strengths-based intervention on the life satisfaction and well-being of adolescents (2011, background): “As recommended by Birnbaum (2004), these 22 individuals were removed before analysis.”
Orientations to happiness and life satisfaction: the full life versus the empty life (2005, background): “Although certain limitations exist, Internet surveys provide researchers with the opportunities to recruit efficiently large and diverse samples at relatively little cost (Birnbaum, 2000, 2004; Kraut et al., 2004; Schonlau et al., 2002).”
The internet as psychological laboratory. (2006, methodology): “POTENTIAL LIMITATIONS OR CAUTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH CURRENT WEB-BASED RESEARCH IN PSYCHOLOGY Although using the Internet for research has a number of potential advantages, our review revealed that it also has a number of limitations (see also Birnbaum 2004, Skitka & Sargis 2005).”
Very Happy Youths: Benefits of Very High Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents (2010, methodology): “The Internet was used to recruit participants and collect the data (Birnbaum 2004; Seligman et al. 2005).”
Cyberbullying and traditional bullying in adolescence: Differential roles of moral disengagement, moral emotions, and moral values (2012, background): “Birnbaum (2004) states that data collected in an on-line study cannot be assumed to represent a sample of some stable population of ‘‘web users’’ and that self-selected web participants cannot be assumed to represent random samples of any particular population.”
Moral Emotions and Social Activism: The Case of Animal Rights (2009, methodology): “Web-based studies have now been used in a wide range of psychological research and have generally been found to produce data which are reliable and valid (Birnbaum, 2004; Gosling, Vazire, Srivastava, & John, 2004; Kraut et al., 2004).”
The vampire effect: When do celebrity endorsers harm brand recall? (2015, methodology): “…of female participants who used hair coloration products frequently (self-assessed usage frequency) through a professional online panel provider (respondi AG) and followed existing Fo rth co mi ng IJ RM V olu me 32 #2 (2 01 5) 11 recommendations for online sample acquisitions (Birnbaum, 2004).”
E-mail interviewing in qualitative research: A methodological discussion (2006, neutral): “For excellent reviews of online surveys or questionnaires, see Birnbaum (2004), Couper (2000), Dillman (2000), and Tourangeau (2004).”