Cognitive Psychology

This study is concerned with the critical thinking skills and how this relates to general critical thinking dispositions. Participants will be tested on their critical thinking skills from a variety of general critical thinking scenarios.

The study is about how cannabis use trends may relate to distinctions among measures most commonly associated with general cannabis use. The survey consists of questions on personal information including general drug use history, cognitive motivation and academic achievement.

Participants must be aged 18 and over and from the UK only.

You are invited to participate in a study investigating a relationship between the fear of death and ability to predict.

For participants who speak English, are aged between 18 and 60, are not suffering from hypochondria.

This study concerns the relationship between stress and the problems stress may cause to our everyday cognition (memory, attention, decision making, etc.). Participants should be 18+.

A short experiment about performance in a fun cognitive task. You’ll watch a short video, then perform a visual task. Your answers will be completely anonymous and will contribute to social science research.

The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between nostalgia, music and memory. You will be asked to write down some songs from different lifetime eras, and then asked about memories associated with those songs. The final stage will require participants to answer questions relating to nostalgia.

This study aims to gain a better understanding of the content of people’s mind-wandering experiences. You will make a note of any thoughts you experience whilst listening to an audio recording. Then, you will complete a questionnaire with reference to one of your thoughts, followed by a bried demographic questionnaire.

This study aims to investigate what people think about the purpose, advantages and disadvantages of mind-wandering in everyday life. You will complete a few questions using a rating scale to tell us what you personally think about your mind-wandering experiences. You will be a few demographic details about yourself.

Test your memory and general knowledge with this fun experiment. How high can you score?

You are invited to participate in a study on conceptual/ semantic knowledge. It requires that you are sitting at a computer as typing is required for the questions. The only requirement is that English is your first language and you are a resident in the UK and 18+.

We are interested in finding out how people make risky decisions,We are interested to know what you would do if you really need to make these decisions now.  So please try to answer as you would answer if you are making these decisions for real. Note that there are no right and wrong answers and you are free to choose whatever most suits your preferenc es. Please take your time to go through the questions.

A survey to examine personality and the intuitions of the moral worth of everyday objects

n this study, people are given a short description of a person, and are then asked to judge the likelihood of events related to that person. For example, the likelihood that the person goes to work by train.

During the study, you will be shown pairs of images side by side and it is your task to decide if the two people are related, that is if they are siblings. The research aims to discover the signals in the face that are needed for kin recognition.

You will complete a memory task, and during the task you will first make syllable-count judgements about a series of words. After you have made these judgements, you will complete a memory test, assessing your memory for the previously judged words. During this memory test, you will be asked whether each presented word is old (previously encountered in the syllable-counting phase) or new (not previously encountered).

In this study, participants are given short descriptions of two persons, and are asked what they would regard as highly likely, and what as highly unlikely for these persons to do or to have. The study is part of a larger project on reasoning about the likelihood of events.

This is an experiment on learning in the form of simple game, following the adventures of Mr. Pegs. There are four different experiments, each one takes up to about 25min. Feedback is given when all four are complete. Have fun!

An online survey looking at everyday decision making. You will be present with a choice of two foodstuffs, simply choose the one that you prefer. Exclusions: Those with food allergies/intollerances, those with medical conditions related to diet e.g. diabetes and those with lifestyle choices related to food e.g. vegetarian.

In this study, we are interested in how creative you are and how this relates to age, occupation and education level.

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How good is your memory? Take this test and find out. In this experiment, we are also tested to see how memory relates to language abilities.