Brian A. Nosek - US grants

[unreadable] DESCRIPTION (provided by investigator): The existence of a psychological laboratory on the Internet can provide an attractive supplement to the standard laboratory because of the increased access to very large samples, flexibility of research design, the ease of data collection, the absence of coercion, and the Internet's global reach. Creating an effective virtual laboratory (VL) will require innovation and improvement of standard laboratory research methods, consideration of methodological and ethical issues novel to research on the Internet, and the creation of straightforward and flexible tools for non-technically savvy researchers to take advantage of the substantial opportunities of VL research. A website introduced by the authors of this application in 1998 has provided significant experience with bringing research in implicit social cognition to the Internet. This application is an integrative effort to build on this experience and to offer 5 objectives that advance this method further: (1) develop and test new methodological advances for psychological research on the Internet, (2) develop an interface for other researchers, especially those lacking the requisite technical skills, to utilize our virtual laboratory research (VLR) tools, (3) provide an impetus for theoretical and methodological innovation for our own substantive area of research on implicit social cognition, (4) expand the education and dissemination components of the existing demonstration and research websites, and (5) establish a data archive for the large quantities of data already collected and data that continue to be collected from demonstration websites. [unreadable] [unreadable] [unreadable]

[unreadable] DESCRIPTION (provided by investigator): The existence of a psychological laboratory on the Internet can provide an attractive supplement to the standard laboratory because of the increased access to very large samples, flexibility of research design, the ease of data collection, the absence of coercion, and the Internet's global reach. Creating an effective virtual laboratory (VL) will require innovation and improvement of standard laboratory research methods, consideration of methodological and ethical issues novel to research on the Internet, and the creation of straightforward and flexible tools for non-technically savvy researchers to take advantage of the substantial opportunities of VL research. A website introduced by the authors of this application in 1998 has provided significant experience with bringing research in implicit social cognition to the Internet. This application is an integrative effort to build on this experience and to offer 5 objectives that advance this method further: (1) develop and test new methodological advances for psychological research on the Internet, (2) develop an interface for other researchers, especially those lacking the requisite technical skills, to utilize our virtual laboratory research (VLR) tools, (3) provide an impetus for theoretical and methodological innovation for our own substantive area of research on implicit social cognition, (4) expand the education and dissemination components of the existing demonstration and research websites, and (5) establish a data archive for the large quantities of data already collected and data that continue to be collected from demonstration websites. [unreadable] [unreadable] [unreadable]

The Implicit Cognition in STEM Education project (I.C.STEM) will test specific hypotheses about the development and influence of implicit STEM cognitions in student performance, especially for girls and non-Asian minority students, members of groups known for disproportionate attrition from the STEM pipeline. Recent studies have demonstrated that implicit attitudes and stereotypes predict important STEM outcomes like self-identification with the domain, engineering test performance, and college calculus grades. The current project takes advantage of a natural experiment: It will include girls attending a single-sex, inner-city charter school in Chicago that uses a randomized lottery to select its students, girls who had applied to the lottery but were not selected, and a comparison group of students in a ethnically diverse school system in Florida. The researchers will make use of experimental, quasi-experimental, observational, and longitudinal designs and multiple measures and analytic methods so as to be able to make causal claims about the interaction of different factors, such as single-sex and coed classrooms, determining STEM attitudes, persistence, and performance.