Should we trust web-based studies? A comparative analysis of six preconceptions about internet questionnaires.

By Samuel D. Gosling, Simine Vazire, S. Srivastava, Oliver P. John. American Psychologist, 2004

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, Communication, Sociology and Political Science

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Moral Emotions and Social Activism: The Case of Animal Rights (2009, result): “Research comparing data from web-based studies and traditional college samples suggests that the results of Internet research are surprisingly consistent with data gathered by traditional means (Gosling et al., 2004).”
The Influence of Prior Relationship, Gender, and Fear on the Consequences of Stalking Victimization (2012, methodology): “Support for on-line research is provided by Gosling et al. (2004). After noting scepticism concerning internet data collection methods, these authors conducted an empirical comparison of a web sample of 361,703 respondents with data collected Sex Roles”
Transportation and Need for Affect in Narrative Persuasion: A Mediated Moderation Model (2010, background): “69 reported by Green and Brock (2000). Higher scores indicated more negative beliefs about psychiatric patients.”
Effects of Trait Emotional Intelligence and Sociobiographical Variables on Communicative Anxiety and Foreign Language Anxiety among Adult Multilinguals: A Review and Empirical Investigation (2008, background): “Gosling et al. (2004) concluded by pointing out that the ability to collect data from large and diverse samples and motivated respondents and the ease and efficiency with which the data can be collected outweigh the methodological constraints (p. 102).”
Conflict styles of men and women at six organization levels (2008, background): “(For evidence of the equivalence of pencil-and-paper and online versions of instruments, see Gosling et al., 2004, and Naglieri et al., 2004.)”
The well-being of playful adults: Adult playfulness, subjective well-being, physical well-being, and the pursuit of enjoyable activities (2013, positive): “However, there is empirical evidence that data collected via the Internet is comparable to data collected in more conventional ways (e.g., Gosling et al. 2004).”
Breed differences in canine aggression (2008, result): “The findings also suggest that, for the purpose of obtaining information on the prevalence of behavior problems in the pet dog population, internet data collection methods provided results comparable to those obtained by more traditional paper-and-pencil surveys (Gosling et al., 2004).”