TurkPrime is probably the best tool you can find for MTurk academic data collection. I use MTurk a lot for data collection, which makes TurkPrime one of the most essential tools available to me as a researcher. Even if you still have doubts about... Read More | Share it now!
Recite Works: The ultimate citation checker
Making sure the citations in your manuscript are setup correctly used to be a very tedious task. Throughout the years I’ve seen different scholars have different methods of tackling this problem, but the most common of all seems to either use... Read More | Share it now!
Running Experiments with Amazon Mechanical Turk
I’ll start by saying that I think Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and online markets offer no less than a revolution in experimental psychology. By now, I’ve already conducted over a hundred experiments on MTurk and have come to consider it... Read More | Share it now!
Managing Citations : Google Scholar & Refworks
Managing citations and creating bibliographies used to be alot of work. Tools like Endnote made things slightly easier, but it was still a bit of a hassle to export all the citations, download those and manage them. But, in recent years the... Read More | Share it now!
In-class Experiments #8 : Leadership and Group Collaboration
The following two in-class activities were aimed at two topics that are especially interesting to demonstrate in the classroom – leadership and group collaboration. When it comes to the formation of leadership – how can you force a... Read More | Share it now!
In-class Experiments #7 : Teaching Managerial Ethics
Though I know many instructors shy away from dealing with the issue of ethics in the classroom, I find that topic especially challenging and intriguing. I’ve followed how Dan Ariely discusses some of this psychological science with the wide... Read More | Share it now!
In-class Experiments #6 : Hindsight, False Consensus & Confirmation Biases
To continue the in-class experiments series, I ran three more inclass experiments in the recent summer course I gave – Hindsight Bias, False Consensus Bias & Confirmation Bias. The three are relatively straightforward and can be combined into... Read More | Share it now!
In-Class Experiments #5 : Forer Fallacy of Personal Validation
My strongest memory of all that I’ve studied during my MBA was an in-class experiment showing the fallacy of handwriting assessment. Now that I’ve turned a management/psychology instructor and am constantly seeking learning experiences that... Read More | Share it now!