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Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law, 2008
Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 2016
Behavior Research Methods, Feb 4, 2014
Although researchers often assume their participants are naive to experimental materials, this is... more Although researchers often assume their participants are naive to experimental materials, this is not always the case.
We investigated how prior exposure to a task affects subsequent experimental results. Participants in this study
completed the same set of 12 experimental tasks at two points in time, first as a part of the Many Labs replication
project and again a few days, a week, or a month later. Effect sizes were markedly lower in the second wave than in
the first. The reduction was most pronounced when participants were assigned to a different condition in the second
wave. We discuss the methodological implications of these findings.
Handbook of Human Computation, 2013
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
ABSTRACT Criminal liability has classically been dependent on intentionally causing harm. However... more ABSTRACT Criminal liability has classically been dependent on intentionally causing harm. However, the reach of federal criminal law has recently expanded to include many strict liability crimes and crimes with less than intentional mens rea requirements. In a series of studies, we investigate laypeople’s intuitions about the appropriateness of criminal and civil consequences for harms committed with different levels of mens rea, in order to determine whether criminalizing unintentional behavior comports with laypeople’s beliefs about what is just. In three studies, we find that they believe criminal consequences to be significantly more just when applied to truly intentional harms. We then explore whether these lay beliefs about the appropriate relationship between criminal penalties and intentional harms lead people to perceive harm-doers who face criminal consequences as having acted more intentionally than those who face civil consequences. We find that people do perceive harm-doers facing criminal charges to have acted more intentionally, though this effect is qualified by their initial perception of the justness of the consequence.
Behavior Research Methods, 2014
Four Essays in Consumer Decision-Making
Amazon Mechanical Turk has become increasingly popular among social scientists as a source of exp... more Amazon Mechanical Turk has become increasingly popular among social scientists as a source of experimental data. Behavioral scientists have noticed the ease with which online workers can be recruited and paid using crowdsourcing services and have begun using Mechanical Turk intensively. We report the results of a comparative study involving classic experiments in judgment and decision-making, which found no differences in the magnitude of effects obtained using AMT and using traditional subject pools. We further ...
Behavior Research Methods
Annual Review of Law and Social …, Jan 1, 2010
ABSTRACT While the Mechanical Turk web interface allows researchers to contact research participa... more ABSTRACT While the Mechanical Turk web interface allows researchers to contact research participants individually, it is frequently necessary to email participants en masse. In this working paper we describe how to email up to 100 workers at a time using boto.
Abstract: Duplicate respondents across related experiments are a substantial problem for conducti... more Abstract: Duplicate respondents across related experiments are a substantial problem for conducting programmatic research on AMT. In this tutorial, we provide a straightforward alternative that allows researchers who use Qualtrics to exclude workers who participated in a previous study. This approach allows researchers to exclude workers who have completed any HIT before, without having to use AMT's Command Line Tools.
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Law, 2008
Trends in Neuroscience and Education, 2016
Behavior Research Methods, Feb 4, 2014
Although researchers often assume their participants are naive to experimental materials, this is... more Although researchers often assume their participants are naive to experimental materials, this is not always the case.
We investigated how prior exposure to a task affects subsequent experimental results. Participants in this study
completed the same set of 12 experimental tasks at two points in time, first as a part of the Many Labs replication
project and again a few days, a week, or a month later. Effect sizes were markedly lower in the second wave than in
the first. The reduction was most pronounced when participants were assigned to a different condition in the second
wave. We discuss the methodological implications of these findings.
Handbook of Human Computation, 2013
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000
ABSTRACT Criminal liability has classically been dependent on intentionally causing harm. However... more ABSTRACT Criminal liability has classically been dependent on intentionally causing harm. However, the reach of federal criminal law has recently expanded to include many strict liability crimes and crimes with less than intentional mens rea requirements. In a series of studies, we investigate laypeople’s intuitions about the appropriateness of criminal and civil consequences for harms committed with different levels of mens rea, in order to determine whether criminalizing unintentional behavior comports with laypeople’s beliefs about what is just. In three studies, we find that they believe criminal consequences to be significantly more just when applied to truly intentional harms. We then explore whether these lay beliefs about the appropriate relationship between criminal penalties and intentional harms lead people to perceive harm-doers who face criminal consequences as having acted more intentionally than those who face civil consequences. We find that people do perceive harm-doers facing criminal charges to have acted more intentionally, though this effect is qualified by their initial perception of the justness of the consequence.
Behavior Research Methods, 2014
Four Essays in Consumer Decision-Making
Amazon Mechanical Turk has become increasingly popular among social scientists as a source of exp... more Amazon Mechanical Turk has become increasingly popular among social scientists as a source of experimental data. Behavioral scientists have noticed the ease with which online workers can be recruited and paid using crowdsourcing services and have begun using Mechanical Turk intensively. We report the results of a comparative study involving classic experiments in judgment and decision-making, which found no differences in the magnitude of effects obtained using AMT and using traditional subject pools. We further ...
Behavior Research Methods
Annual Review of Law and Social …, Jan 1, 2010
ABSTRACT While the Mechanical Turk web interface allows researchers to contact research participa... more ABSTRACT While the Mechanical Turk web interface allows researchers to contact research participants individually, it is frequently necessary to email participants en masse. In this working paper we describe how to email up to 100 workers at a time using boto.
Abstract: Duplicate respondents across related experiments are a substantial problem for conducti... more Abstract: Duplicate respondents across related experiments are a substantial problem for conducting programmatic research on AMT. In this tutorial, we provide a straightforward alternative that allows researchers who use Qualtrics to exclude workers who participated in a previous study. This approach allows researchers to exclude workers who have completed any HIT before, without having to use AMT's Command Line Tools.