E‐Research: Ethics, Security, Design, and Control in Psychological Research on the Internet
By Brian A. Nosek, Mahzarin R. Banaji, A. Greenwald. 2002
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Differences between traditional laboratory research and Internet-based research require a review of basic issues of research methodology. These differences have implications for research ethics (e.g., absence of researcher, potential exposure of confidential data and/or identity to a third party, guaranteed debriefing) and security (e.g., confidentiality and anonymity, security of data transmission, security of data storage, and tracking participants over time). We also review basic design issues a researcher should consider before implementing an Internet study, including the problem of participant self-selection and loss of experimental control on the Internet laboratory. An additional challenge for Internet-based research is the increased opportunity for participant misbehavior, intentional or otherwise. We discuss methods to detect arid minimize these threats to the validity of Internet-based research.
Subfields: Applied Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Cosmetics: They Influence More Than Caucasian Female Facial Attractiveness (2006, background): “Certain guidelines have been suggested for implementing research on the Internet (Bonfadelli, 2002; Nosek, Banaji, & Greenwald, 2002; Schmitt, 1997).”
- Emotion regulation difficulties in trauma survivors: the role of trauma type and PTSD symptom severity. (2010, background): “However, it is reassuring that studies directly comparing webbased versus paper-and-pencil surveys found both types of research to be equally reliable (Fortson et al., 2006; Nosek et al., 2002).”
- Cyberbullying and traditional bullying in adolescence: Differential roles of moral disengagement, moral emotions, and moral values (2012, methodology): “One potential solution might be to use a step-by-step procedure including invited accessibility (Nosek, Banaji, & Greenwald, 2002 ) by contacting a randomly selected sample of participants from a school district and providing them with both a unique access code and a link.”