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ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PSYCHOLOGIE-JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 229, Issue 4, Pages 198-213Publisher
HOGREFE PUBLISHING CORP
DOI: 10.1027/2151-2604/a000475
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Internet-based research; online experiments; online research; online assessment; web surveys
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This article reviews web-based research in psychology, covering various types of research such as web surveys, questionnaires, tests, experiments, and big data. It emphasizes the importance of web-based research methods in research methodology, discusses common pitfalls and best practices, and provides an outlook on future developments in web-based research.
The present article reviews web-based research in psychology. It captures principles, learnings, and trends in several types of web-based research that show similar developments related to web technology and its major shifts (e.g., appearance of search engines, browser wars, deep web, commercialization, web services, HTML5...) as well as distinct challenges. The types of web-based research discussed are web surveys and questionnaire research, web-based tests, web experiments, Mobile Experience Sampling, and non-reactive web research, including big data. A number of web-based methods are presented and discussed that turned out to become important in research methodology. These are one-item-one-screen design, seriousness check, instruction manipulation and other attention checks, multiple site entry technique, subsampling technique, warm-up technique, and web-based measurement. Pitfalls and best practices are described then, especially regarding dropout and other non-response, recruitment of participants, and interaction between technology and psychological factors. The review concludes with a discussion of important concepts that have developed over 25 years and an outlook on future developments in web-based research.
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