We’ve interviewed Gorilla users about their fascinating research, and how they think online research will change their fields. Find out more below.
Timing Research Forum
Timing and time perception
“Blursday includes quantitative statistics such as sleep patterns, personality traits, psychological well-being and lockdown indices. The database provides quantitative insights on the effects of lockdown (stringency and mobility) and subjective confinement on time perception (duration, passage of time and temporal distances). ” Continue Reading Timing Research Forum
Yanina Prystauka
Psychology of Language
Post Doc
University of Agder, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
“We asked whether webcam-based eye tracking provides the necessary granularity to replicate effects, both large and small, that tracker-based eye tracking has shown.” Continue Reading Yanina Prystauka
Angelos Krypotos
Fear, Pain, Avoidance
Assistant Professor
Utrecht University and KU Leuven
“I have run multiple experiments in Gorilla. The common thread is that I study individual differences in how individuals learn to avoid pain.” Continue Reading Angelos Krypotos
Adam John Privitera
Cognitive Psychology, Neuroscience, Education
Lecturer of Psychology
The University of Hong Kong/Wenzhou-Kean University
“Behavioral studies on the influence of bilingualism can now more easily recruit larger, more diverse samples of participants.” Continue Reading Adam John Privitera
Danni Peng-Li
Sensory and Consumer Neuroscience
PhD Candidate
Aarhus University & Chinese Academy of Sciences
“My research spans the fields of multisensory perception and food-related decision-making.” Continue Reading Danni Peng-Li
Jen Pink
Psychopathy and offending
PhD Student
Swansea University
“I work in psychopathy, exploring the relationships between psychopathic traits and offending behaviours” Continue Reading Jen Pink
Nicholas R. Harp
Social and Cognitive Psychology, Affective Neuroscience
Graduate Student, Research Assistant
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
“I’m a big fan of how version control is built into the site and readily accessible” Continue Reading Nicholas R. Harp
Elena Benini
Task and language switching
PhD Student
RWTH Aachen University
“time-wise, you can probably afford to spend a couple of afternoons collecting data you normally would not have, and this could lead to some cool results that may have taken longer to be discovered using in-person data collection. ” Continue Reading Elena Benini
Graham Flick
Cognitive neuroscience and neurolinguistics
PhD Student
New York University
“My research examines the ability to produce and understand language, with a focus on how we recognize and combine the meanings of words.” Continue Reading Graham Flick
Jade Pickering
Learning and long-term retention of information
Postdoc
University of Southampton
“In the past and using in-person methods it would’ve taken me months to get the same sample size!” Continue Reading Jade Pickering
Madeleine Pownall
Social Psychology
Postgraduate Teaching Assistant and PhD researcher
University of Leeds
“I actually think that there’s a real social justice/accessibility/inclusivity benefit of online research methods.” Continue Reading Madeleine Pownall
Mircea Zloteanu
Lie Detection, Emotions, Decision-Making, User Behaviour, Investigations
Forensic Psychology Lecturer
Teesside University
“We showed that not all “posed” emotions are created equal, and that research needs to consider this for us to have an accurate picture of human emotion recognition.” Continue Reading Mircea Zloteanu
Xiao Hu
Memory, metacognition, computational modelling
PhD student
Beijing Normal University
“I am interested in whether our decision to offload information is related to our evaluations of ability on the task – a form of metacognition.” Continue Reading Xiao Hu
Violet Brown
Speech Perception
PhD student in Psychological and Brain Sciences
Washington University in St. Louis
“Perceptual and cognitive traits that are commonly used in individual differences studies appear to be unrelated to susceptibility to the McGurk effect.” Continue Reading Violet Brown
Răzvan Jurchiș
Cognitive psychology (implicit learning, non-conscious knowledge, dual processing); Cognitive-behavior psychotherapy
Post-doctoral researcher
Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania
“I believe that nonconscious knowledge plays a much greater role in our daily behaviour that we think it does.” Continue Reading Răzvan Jurchiș
Marissa Vander Missen
Cognitive theories of depression, approach and avoidance motivation
Undergraduate
University of Notre Dame
“Online research is so valuable, as it gives us researchers the ability to reach and recuit a more diverse group of participants.” Continue Reading Marissa Vander Missen
Joseph Devlin
Consumer Neuroscience
Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience & Vice-dean (Enterprise & Innovation) for the Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL
“We ran an experiment in partnership with Audible, that investigated whether people respond differently to emotionally engaging scenes when they are delivered in video or audiobook format.” Continue Reading Joseph Devlin
Jonathan Tsay
Motor Learning, Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurorehabilitation
Graduate Student (PhD)
University of California, Berkeley
“I work on how the brain controls movement. I use Gorilla to design a battery of cognitive tasks to investigate how the cerebellum contribute to cognition. These tasks span a wide range, from language to visual cognition, from math to attention.” Continue Reading Jonathan Tsay
Anqi Hu
Language, word learning, autism spectrum disorder (ASD)
PhD student
University of Delaware
“Online research has the great potential for us to reach out to a more representative sample and to create a more participant-friendly research experience. It is tremendously helpful for studies that investigate individual differences and learning in children.” Continue Reading Anqi Hu
Max Rollwage
Cognitive Neuroscience: Decision-making, metacognition, computational modelling
PhD student
Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging
“Our findings point to a generic resistance to recognize and revise incorrect beliefs as a potential driver of radicalization.” Continue Reading Max Rollwage
Adrian Banks
Cognitive Psychology Researcher
Senior Lecturer
University of Surrey
“Understanding how we think can help improve it.” Continue Reading Adrian Banks
Bryony Payne
Cognitive Neuroscience
PhD student
Univeristy College London
“Our findings … have implications on the design and selection of individuated synthetic voices that are used with assistive communication devices.” Continue Reading Bryony Payne
Matthew Hunt
Linguistics
PhD Student
Queen Mary University of London
“I used Gorilla to run a variant categorization task using a mixture of regular words, swearwords and legal non-words all ending with the morpheme ‘-ing’.” Continue Reading Matthew Hunt
Nadine Lavan
Voice perception research
Post Doc
UCL
“Listeners are as good or even better at recognising the trained identities from … average recordings compared to … other recordings.” Continue Reading Nadine Lavan
Sahira van de Wouw
Cognitive Neuroscience
PhD Candidate
Royal Holloway University of London
“I am investigating why people make suboptimal decisions, who is susceptible to suboptimal decision making, and whether it is possible to improve decision making.” Continue Reading Sahira van de Wouw
Claire Gothreau
PhD Candidate
Temple University
Political Behavior; Gender and Politics; Political Psychology
“Sexist events spur political engagement, particularly when paired with high levels of feminist identity development.” Continue Reading Claire Gothreau
Jessica Massonnié
Psychology
PhD student
Birkbeck
“I am studying the impact of classroom noise on learning in elementary school. More specifically, I am trying to better understand why some children are more sensitive to noise than others.” Continue Reading Jessica Massonnié
Eva Poort
Psycholinguistics
PhD Student (at time of interview)
UCL (at time of interview)
“The type of task you use influences the size of two well-known effects in the bilingual literature, the cognate facilitation effect and the interlingual homograph inhibition effect.” Continue Reading Eva Poort
Juliet Usher Smith
Cancer and Cardiovascular disease prevention
Clinical Senior Research Associate (and GP)
The Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge
“We believe this is the first study to demonstrate change in risk conviction following provision of risk information.” Continue Reading Juliet Usher Smith
Alex Jones
Face perception, evolutionary psychology, computational modelling
Lecturer
Swansea University
“People unconsciously associate someone who looks Extraverted with words describing that trait. Using Gorilla, we are now expanding these studies to explain the effect using clinical populations.” Continue Reading Alex Jones
Kirsty Graham
Primatology, Comparative Psychology
Research Associate
University of York
“We recruited almost 15,000 participants.” Continue Reading Kirsty Graham
Kyle Jasmin
Cognitive Neuroscience Researcher
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow
Birkbeck University of London
“People with unreliable pitch perception place less weight on pitch when perceiving speech, and more weight on a dimension they perceive reliably – in this case, duration.” Continue Reading Kyle Jasmin
Maša Vujović
Department of Language and Cognition
PhD student
UCL
“I am interested in whether learners are sensitive to these probabilistic patterns in sound and meaning in the language they are learning, and whether the ability to pick up on these patterns helps learners generalize.” Continue Reading Maša Vujović