Cognitive Psychology

This study investigates ways of telling stories or recounting events. If you choose to participate, you will be asked to read a short text and write a short text.

This current study aims to look at memory recall of the World Trade Centre Disaster, September 11th, 2001 by asking questions such as: where you were, who you were with and how you felt. Your responses will remain anonymous, but demographic details will be used.

We are interested in how your memory might be affected by the physical activities that you take part in. This short experiment includes some questions about your sporting activities and a short memory task. Anyone can take part.

The word association task has a long history in psychology as a tool for investigating how people think. In this experiment you will be required to make word associations to a set of words. We will tell you more about the specific research question at the end of the experiment.

The following study has been designed to explore the nature of human decision-making under different choice scenarios.

Fun study asking you to listen to 6 one minute audio samples and give feedback about your emotional reaction to them.

I have a gallery of 60 faces and I’m looking for people to rate them on how human-like, strange and eerie they appear.

The survey aims at learning what makes reading text on small displays, such as mobile phones, a fluent and comfortable experience.

This study investigates how our beliefs about individual faces are related to how we process them. Participation involves viewing images of faces and rating them according to your own perceptions or beliefs. For example, judging the similarity between two faces or judging how honest a person’s face looks

We are interested in exploring the types of details that people remember when recalling their memories of early childhood. This study asks you for a description of FOUR such early memories (two emotionally positive, two emotionally negative), and answer a short set of questions about each of these memories.

The purpose of this study is to help us understand how people assess the likelihood of various events. In this study, you will be reading very short passages and estimating the probability of various events. We hope this research will help us better understand how people approach probability assessments.

This research aims to examine the mechanism of social anxiety and I will be looking at the association between the social anxiety and the fear of evaluation from the others. If you feel uncomfortable to provide information about your social anxiety, you may not prefer to answer those questions. Your participation is completely voluntary. You are free to withdraw from the study at any time during the study. If you wish to withdraw after the data submission, you will need to contact the researcher and provide your codename before 1st of August.

Study on Art Appreciation Judgements. Participants will see a series of works of art and will be asked simple questions about them.

A short computer-based experiment on learning. You play the part of a trainee observer learning to predict radiation flashes from distant quasars.

Questionnaire consists of a series of photographic images of vintage objects (1930s to 60s). Participants are asked if memories are triggered and if so from approximate date. We are hoping to stimulate memories from the ‘reminiscence bump’ i.e.when approximately 10 – 30 years of age.

What do people learn when they watch videos? This experiment has you watch a video and tests your visual memory. See your visual memory results at the end!

George Washington always refers to George Washington. He can refer to any male. How good are you at figuring out what pronouns mean?

This study aims to assess how much mental effort is involved in maintaining friendships and kinships.  We wish to explore whether the system of kinship is a schema, enabling the cognitive load of these relationships to be reduced and the expansion of the social network.

This short survey investigates undergraduate’s knowledge about and use of mnemonic devices. The survey consists of multiple choice, short answer and rating scale questions.

A quick experiment where you will be asked to try and identify the direction an arrow is pointing.