Web Survey Bibliography
With increasing frequency JavaScript is used in web studies,often with a certain naivity regarding compatibility issues.These technical problems might result in methodological artefacts with some types of online research,and ethical questions have to be considered as well.However,for reasons of design and applicability of a number of techniques,Web experiments should generally be less prone to possible biases,and between-subjects Web experiments even more so than within-subjects Web experiments (Reips,1999,in press). Consequently,we tested whether a JavaScript version of the Web experiment would result in more or less problems than a traditional CGI version.Therefore we conducted an experiment on a meanwhile well-known phenomenon:the hindsight bias.The hindsight bias is the tendency of people to falsely believe that they would have predicted the outcome of an event correctly,once the outcome is known.Mazursky and Ofir (1990)demonstrated that highly surprising outcomes could eliminate or even reverse the hindsight bias:Participants showed a ”I could not have expected this to happen ”reaction instead of a ”I knew it all along ”reaction. Stahlberg,Sczesny and Schwarz (1999)found a reversed hindsight bias when participants learned about a self-threatening outcome.Stahlberg et al.hypothesized that motivational factors like self-protection would play a role in moderating the hindsight bias.To test whether the surprise or the threat of the outcome leads to a reversal of the hindsight bias we conducted a Web experiment where we experimentally manipulated both factors.In a 2 by 2 factorial design (with the factors highly and not surprising outcome vs.highly and not self-threatening outcome)we expected a strong reversed hindsight bias when the outcome was highly surprising and highly self-threatening.The comparison of the condition highly surprising but not self-threatening outcome with the condition not surprising but highly self-threatening outcome should show which of the two factors surprise or threat will reverse the hindsight bias.Results will be discussed.
Web survey bibliography - Reips, U.-D. (41)
- Using Visual Analogue Scales in eHealth: Non-Response Effects in a Lifestyle Intervention; 2016; Kuhlmann, T.; Reips, U.-D.; Wienert, J.; Lippke, S.
- Build your own social network laboratory with Social Lab: a tool for research in social media; 2014; Garaizar, P., Reips, U.-D.
- WEBDATANET: Innovation and Quality in Web-Based Data Collection ; 2014; Steinmetz, S., Slavec, A., Tijdens, K. G., Reips, U.-D., de Pedraza, P., Popescu, A., Belchior, A., ...,...
- Mining “Big Data” using Big Data Services ; 2014; Reips, U.-D., Matzat, U.
- Interactive applets on the Web for methods and statistics; 2013; McClelland, G., Reips, U.-D.
- Askito: An open source Web questionnaire tool; 2013; Reips, U.-D., Heilmann, T.
- Psychometric properties of an internet administered version of the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability...; 2012; Vesteinsdottir, V., Reips, U.-D., Joinson, A. N., Porsdottir, F.
- Why semantic differentials in Web-based research should be made from visual analogue scales and not...; 2012; Funke, F., Reips, U.-D.
- Methodological challenges in the use of the Internet for scientific research: Ten solutions and recommendations...; 2011; Reips, U.-D., Buchanan, T., Krantz, J. H., McGrawn, K.Reips, U.-D.
- What are participants doing while filling in an online questionnaire: A paradata collection tool and...; 2010; Stieger, S., Reips, U.-D.
- Making small effects observable: Reducing error by using visual analogue scales; 2009; Funke, F., Reips, U.-D.
- Yes, VASs can! Increasing the accuracy of survey measurements with computerized visual analogue scales...; 2009; Funke, F., Reips, U.-D.
- True Web experiments; 2009; Reips, U.-D.
- Internet questionnaires in e-health contexts: Non-response to sensitive items; 2009; Reips, U.-D., Buchanan, T., Joinson, A. N., Paine, C.
- Collecting data in surfer's paradise: Internet-mediated research yesterday, now, and tomorrow; 2009; Reips, U.-D.
- A decade of Internet-based data collection: Time is ripe for combining e-learning with i-science; 2009; Reips, U.-D.
- Experimentation within surveys; 2009; Reips, U.-D.
- Investigating causal relationships with power: Online experiments; 2009; Reips, U.-D.
- TitleInternet-basierte Messung sozialer Erwünschtheit: Theoretische Grundlagen und experimentelle Untersuchung...; 2008; Kaufmann, E., Reips, U.-D.
- Response time measurement in the lab and on the Web: A comparison; 2007; Galesic, M., Reips, U.-D., Kaczmirek, L., Czienskowski, U., Liske, N., von Oertzen, T.
- Experiments on non- response in internet- based research; 2007; Reips, U.-D.
- Dynamic Forms: Online Surveys 2.0 ; 2007; Funke, F., Reips, U.-D.
- Forced response in online surveys: bias from reactance and an increase in sex-specific dropout; 2007; Stieger, S., Reips, U. -D., Voracek, M.
- The methodology of Internet-based experiments; 2007; Reips, U.-D.
- Personalized salutation, power of sender and response rates to Web-based surveys; 2007; Joinson, A. N., Reips, U. -D.
- Web-based methods; 2006; Reips, U.-D.
- Privacy, Trust, Disclosure and the Internet; 2006; Paine, C., , Buchanan, T., Reips, U. -D.
- The Web experiment list: A Web service for the recruitment of participants and archiving of Internet...; 2005; Reips, U. -D., Lengler, R.
- Scientific LogAnalyzer: A Web-based tool for analyses of server log files in psychological research; 2004; Reips, U.-D., Stieger, S.
- Employee surveys via Internet or paper? The influence of administration mode, anonymity, voluntariness...; 2004; Reips, U.-D., Franek, L.
- Salutation, Power and behaviour in on-line panels; 2004; Joinson, A. N., Reips, U.-D.
- WEXTOR: A Web-based tool for generating and visualizing experimental designs and procedures; 2002; Reips, U.-D., Neuhaus, C.
- WeXtor 2.5: Develop, manage, and visualize experimental designs and procedures; 2002; Reips, U.-D., Blumer, T., Neuhaus, C.
- Social desirable responding and age on the Internet: older participants in online studies show a higher...; 2002; Reips, U.-D., Stoeber, J., Hahn, A.
- Internet-Based Psychological Experimenting: Five Dos and Five Don'ts; 2002; Reips, U.-D.
- The Kid's Experimental Psychology Lab: A Web Site for Internet Research with Children; 2002; Frick, A., Reips, U.-D.
- Platform-dependent biases in Online Research: Do Mac users really think different?; 2001; Buchanan, T., Reips, U.-D.
- Financial Incentives, Personal Information and Drop-Out in Online Studies; 2001; Frick, A., Bachtiger, M. T., Reips, U.-D.
- A Brief History of Web Experimenting; 2000; Musch, J., Reips, U.-D.
- Current Internet science - trends, techniques, results. ; 1999; Reips, U.-D., Batinic, B., Bandilla, W., Bosnjak, M., Graef, L., Moser, K., Werner, A.
- Drop-out caused by JavaScript: "I could not have expected this to happen " - A Web experiment...; 1999; Reips, U.-D., Schwarz, S.