The internet as psychological laboratory.

By Linda J. Skitka, Edward G. Sargis. Annual Review of Psychology, 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Leading the Herd Astray: An Experimental Study of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in an Artificial Cultural Market (2008, methodology): “We also believe this experiment may have implications for experimental sociology and social psychology more generally by showing the potential for web-based experiments to operate on a scale that is not possible in a physical lab (Skitka and Sargis 2006).”
Crowdsourcing Consumer Research (2017, methodology): “The use of the Internet as an instrument of data collection in the social sciences dates back to the late nineties, and has been the object of debate ever since (Gosling et al. 2004; Kraut et al. 2004; Skitka and Sargis 2006; see Gosling and Mason 2015 for a recent review).”
Musical activities predispose to involuntary musical imagery (2012, background): “Recent publications in psychology and musicology demonstrate the usefulness of internetbased data acquisition tools (Honing & Ladinig, 2008; Nosek, Banaji, & Greenwald, 2002; Skitka & Sargis, 2006), which supports the suitability of the sampling method.”
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).”
Temporal Patterns of Happiness and Information in a Global Social Network: Hedonometrics and Twitter (2011, methodology): “As such, we avoid the many difficulties associated with self-report [64–66].”
"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).”
Web-based experiments for the study of collective social dynamics in cultural markets (2009, unknown): “These experiments will pose specific challenges above and beyond the challenges of Web-based experiments in general (Kraut et al., 2004; Nosek, Banaji, & Greenwald, 2002a; Reips, 2002; Skitka & Sargis, 2006).”
Awe, the small self, and prosocial behavior. (2015, methodology): “There were 1,519 participants (752 male, 767 female) who were drawn from a Knowledge Networks nationally representative panel and paid to complete the study (see Skitka & Sargis, 2006).”
The quality of data collected online: An investigation of careless responding in a crowdsourced sample (2020, background): “Whereas in 2003 and 2004 only 1.6% of articles published in APA journals used the Internet (Skitka and Sargis, 2006), Gosling and Mason (2015) stated just a few years later that “studies that use the Internet in one way or another have become so pervasive that reviewing them all would be impossible””
Family Informants’ Perceptions of Insight in Compulsive Hoarding (2010, background): “The internet is increasingly being used for mental health research ( Skitka and Sargis 2006 ), and several studies indicate that web-based data collection results in greater sample diversity, generalizes across presentation formats, and yields findings consistent with data collected using more tradi”
Coming Out Growth: Conceptualizing and Measuring Stress-Related Growth Associated with Coming Out to Others as a Sexual Minority (2010, methodology): “The survey was administered on the Internet via a secure website to provide greater confidentiality/anonymity and accessibility to participants and to provide a more diverse and representative sample of individuals than traditional research methods (Gosling et al. 2004; Murray and Fisher 2002; Skit”