Psychological research online: report of Board of Scientific Affairs' Advisory Group on the Conduct of Research on the Internet.

By Robert E. Kraut, Judith S. Olson, Mahzarin R. Banaji, Amy S. Bruckman, J.M. Cohen, Mick Couper. American Psychologist, 2004

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As the Internet has changed communication, commerce, and the distribution of information, so too it is changing psychological research. Psychologists can observe new or rare phenomena online and can do research on traditional psychological topics more efficiently, enabling them to expand the scale and scope of their research. Yet these opportunities entail risk both to research quality and to human subjects. Internet research is inherently no more risky than traditional observational, survey, or experimental methods. Yet the risks and safeguards against them will differ from those characterizing traditional research and will themselves change over time. This article describes some benefits and challenges of conducting psychological research via the Internet and offers recommendations to both researchers and institutional review boards for dealing with them. ((c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved)

Subfields: Information Systems and Management, Sociology and Political Science

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Crowdsourcing Consumer Research (2017, methodology): “Echoing early concerns with online research (Kraut et al. 2004), some researchers worry about the impossibility of scrutinizing participants’ behavior—participants might be multitasking or be interrupted during the study.”
Factors affecting response rates of the web survey: A systematic review (2010, methodology): “…such as keeping identifying information separately from other data, using passwords protection or encryption, using multiple servers to hold different part of the survey, and installing firewalls and virtual private networks (Cho & LaRose, 1999; Crawford, 2006a; Kraut et al., 2004; O’Neil, 2001).”
E-mail interviewing in qualitative research: A methodological discussion (2006, neutral): “Overall, the length of the data collection period depends on several factors, including but not limited to: the number of participants in each study, the number of questions asked, the degree of commitment or motivation of the participants, the quantity and quality of data gathered, the time both th”
Who's your target? The creative class as a target group for place branding (2009, methodology): “The survey was conducted following the recommendations given in the field closely (Birnbaum, 2004; Kraut et al., 2004).”
More than meets the eye: The role of subordinates' self-perceptions in leader categorization processes☆ (2011, methodology): “Participants were approached via a direct mailing that contained a link to enter an anonymous online survey programmed according to the recommendations given in the field (Birnbaum, 2004; Kraut et al., 2004).”
Is the Web as good as the lab? Comparable performance from Web and lab in cognitive/perceptual experiments (2012, background): “necessarily noisier than lab data (Gosling et al., 2004; Kraut et al., 2004).”
Implementing a five-factor personality inventory for use on the internet (2005, background): “…the past few years, internet-oriented psychologists have begun to generate a body of literature on the potential that the web may offer for many applied and basic investigations (e.g., Birnbaum, 2000; Gosling, Vazire, Srivastava, & John, 2004; Kraut et al., 2004; Reips & Bosnjak, 2001).”
Introducing the Open Affective Standardized Image Set (OASIS) (2017, background): “…online for data collection from large and diverse pools of participants without geographic and other boundaries (Berinsky, Huber, & Lenz, 2012; Buhrmester, Kwang, & Gosling, 2011; Kraut et al., 2004; Mason & Suri, 2012; Paolacci, Chandler, & Ipeirotis, 2010), with the exception of digital literacy.”
Family Informants’ Perceptions of Insight in Compulsive Hoarding (2010, result): “Human subjects protection was consistent with current recommendations for web-based studies ( Kraut et al. 2004 ).”
Self-uncertainty and Support for Autocratic Leadership (2013, methodology): “Survey procedures followed recent recommendations for the conduct of internet research (Birnbaum, 2004; Kraut et al., 2004).”