Cognitive Psychology

How well can you understand what other people are thinking, what they are trying to do, or what they are trying to communicate. Test your skills, and see how well you do against the average person.

Take a difficult vocabulary quiz. How well do you know English?

This study investigates how variations in language effect how stories are told. This task involves both reading and writing.

This research aims to understand the semantic relations between a two-word structure and a single-word structure.

In this study you will be presented with a series of 120 words, 80 new and 40 that will be repetitions. You will be asked to indicate whether a presented word is old or new. At various points during the study you will also be asked about your memory experiences.

In this study we are piloting a set of general knowledge questions to use in further research. We are interested in finding out how easy or hard they are (how likely people are to know the answer) as well as find out whether some are more emotion eliciting than others.

We are studying the potential link between cognitive styles and belief in conspiracy theories. There are a 7 scales which are measured using questionnaires

I am interested in emotions and expressions and I want to understand more about how faces are processed when they display different emotions. This study involves looking at images of faces online and either answering questions about them or using them in a drag and drop activity.

15 min experiment to see how people pay attention to and remember images.

I am interested in people’s awareness and justifications about how accurately they remember something. You will see justification statements that participants made when they thought they recognised a word in an experiment, your task is to decide which category their justification falls into from: Remember, Know, Familiar, Guess.

In this experiment you will complete a memory task and at various points during the study you will be asked about your memory experiences. At the end of the study you will receive a breakdown of your memory performance and a full debrief.

This study examines the differences between individual thinking styles particularly in relation to spontaneous or pre-planned behaviour. You will be asked to complete a series of short questionnaires including questions about decision making, mood, and the degree to which statements represent your approach to short and long term decisions.

A short memory test with feedback to tell you how good your memory is. This word memory experiment tests how well you incorporate advice you are given about your memory into your memory decisions. (PC, Mac, iOS & Android).

This study further expands causal learning investigations on continuous data. Participants will need to complete only one section of causal strength judgment between two consecutive events. Participation is totally voluntary and anonymous.

This study further expands causal learning investigations on continuous dimensions. Participants will need to complete only 6 questions on causal judgment. The participation is totally voluntary and anonymous.

We are investigating the relationship between reality monitoring (our ability to distinguish between imagined information and that arising from experience) and different varieties of inner speech (the sub-vocal conversations we have with ourselves).

If you participate in this study, you will play a simple memory game where you will see many images and be asked to remember them. This study is for only for people who have NOT participated our memory game before.

Study on how you remember visual images: If you participate in this study, you will play a simple memory game where you will see many images and be asked to remember them.

This study expands causal learning investigations on continuous data. Participants will involve completing one section of causal strength judgment between two consecutive events. The participation is totally voluntary and anonymous.

A psychology experiment in a simple game format. You play the part of Sgt PCMan on a mission to kill off game clones. Can you learn what you need to do to stay alive?