I am looking for an affordable software solution to configure simple experiments and collect data. Any suggestions?
Depends what you want to do what will be best, but the free version of SurveyMonkey can do some basic things, if your university has Qualtrics it does more, and if you like coding JavaScript is freely available (and there are libraries like jsPsych, that are set up for lots of psychology studies) and is more flexible. Are you planning on using something like MTurk?
Hi Gabriela! Opensesame is the best option. Very similar to e-prime.
https://osdoc.cogsci.nl/
I would suggest PsychoPy, very flexible depending on coding knowledge (but also has a GUI which requires little to no knowledge to build experiments).
PEBL is a free coding language which I have used in the past but would not recommend it if you do not have coding experience.
PsyToolkit is very nice and can cover both online and offline stuff. It has quite good documentation and a lot of examples to help you on your way.
OpenSesame is a good option as well.
All of these are free and provide quite a bit of flexibility which is proportional to the time you choose to invest.
Thank you very much for your replies!
Daniel Wright I was thinking about Qualtrics (no, the University has no account, but I think I might get a private subscription for myself...). MTurk - I've never heard of, I'll have a look, thanks for this suggestion.
Pedro Bem-haja Thanks, I'll give it a shot.
Marin Dujmović unfortunatelly I'm not good on coding :( - I know, I have to lose a lot because of that... Thnak you for your answer!
For another payed option take a look at Gorilla (https://gorilla.sc) I've used it recently and it's quite easy to get into and would recommend it for online experiments.
Hi Gabriela Marcu MTurk is Amazon Mechanical Turk. It is a crowd-sourcing system. You can put a study on the web (e.g., on a Qualitrics server), put a notice on MTurk to respondents (add some money to your account) and it points respondents to your survey and sorts out payment. It is used more in the US than elsewhere. It depends what type of sample you are looking for. I actually just posted a study on RG that does this (Deleted research item The research item mentioned here has been deleted
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