A very broad question I know, but I was wondering if anyone could recommend any open access repositories for standardised methods or commonly used tasks in psychology? In particular, I am interested in commonly employed methods and tasks in emotion and social psychology. It would appear that the availability of such repositories will become increasingly useful given the present-day push towards and emphasis on replication.
Great question.
There is a pretty decent task despository linked to Inquisit experimental software (www.millisecond.com) where you for instance can find a lot of typical experimental tasks (O-span, dot probe, IAT, and many many more). Unfortunately this is linked to specific software (which needs to be the case for many tasks I guess).
One thing that would be awesome is to have a website where an overview is provided about the availability of such task and all kind of scoring algortihms as well. At the lab we sometimes spent quite a bit of time making Code for data cleaning etc. It would be nice to have the ability to share and compare. Also very important in research transparency
Thanks for the reply Renzo, I am familiar with the Coan & Allen text - which is excellent - but this is now almost 10 years old and not easily accessible to students. I recall discussions a few years ago about making methods and tasks more readily available. As an example, I believe there were some discussions relating to an online repository for common tasks in affective neuroscience and psychophysiology that would support the National Institute of Mental Health's Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) efforts. I was wondering whether this might now be available. Related to this there are now many online repositories for storing data over the long-term and wondered there might be something similar for commonly used tasks in a centralised location, rather than these being distributed across different networks. Thanks again for your response!
Great question.
There is a pretty decent task despository linked to Inquisit experimental software (www.millisecond.com) where you for instance can find a lot of typical experimental tasks (O-span, dot probe, IAT, and many many more). Unfortunately this is linked to specific software (which needs to be the case for many tasks I guess).
One thing that would be awesome is to have a website where an overview is provided about the availability of such task and all kind of scoring algortihms as well. At the lab we sometimes spent quite a bit of time making Code for data cleaning etc. It would be nice to have the ability to share and compare. Also very important in research transparency
Have just come across The Psychology Experiment Building Language, which would be worth checking out:
http://pebl.sourceforge.net/index.html#about
According the website:
"This is the main website for the PEBL programming language and execution environment. PEBL is:
- Free psychology software for creating experiments
- Allows you to design your own experiments or use ready-made ones
- Lets you exchange experiments freely without license or charge"\
Has anyone had experience using this?
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