I would also like to be on the beta testing list!

I've been running a simple study in which subjects are shown ratings (0-100) that are computed on the fly using the responses.xls file (ratings are selected from normal distributions with various...

Subjects get 1 point each time they select the more narcissistic sounding statement of the pair (40 pairs of statements, so scores can range from 0 to 40; average scores are usually 16-19 for college...

I think I might have figured out how to do what I was looking to do. It's not perfect, but it seems to work....

In this example, participants are shown 2-digit numbers and asked whether they are...

Below is a posting to the SPSP listserv that I made recently regarding the creating and use of a word list to use in a lexical decision taks measuring whether people focus on success or failure....

Same things as subject-controlled break, except that subjects not given password (password is set to "social," but this can be changed) to continue. They must get experimenters to enter it for them....

Nothing too special here. Just a screen that tells subjects that they can take a break. Asks them to type the word "go" in password field when they are ready to continue. I use it for longer...

Hendin & Cheek (1997)

10-item
5-point scale response

Raskin & Terry's (1988)

-40-item
-Forced-choice

(i.e., standard version)

Is it possible to use Medialab and/or DirectRT using an open-source spreadsheet product like openoffice.org's Calc or Gnumeric? For that matter, has Medialab and/or DirectRT been tested on Linux...