jsPsych: A JavaScript library for creating behavioral experiments in a Web browser

Online experiments are growing in popularity, and the increasing sophistication of Web technology has made it possible to run complex behavioral experiments online using only a Web browser. Unlike with offline laboratory experiments, however, few tools exist to aid in the development of browser-base...

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Published in:Behavior research methods Vol. 47; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12
Main Author: de Leeuw, Joshua R.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Boston Springer US 01.03.2015
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Behavioral Research - instrumentation
Behavioral Research - methods
Behavioral Research - trends
Behavioral Science and Psychology
Cognitive Psychology
Community research
Digital libraries
Experiments
Foreign aid
Humans
Internet
Java
Libraries
Library Automation
Library Technical Services
Open source software
Popularity
Psychology
Research Design - trends
Research methodology
Sophistication
Web Browser
Web browsers
Amazon Mechanical Turk
Online experiments
JavaScript
ISSN:1554-3528, 1554-3528
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Summary:Online experiments are growing in popularity, and the increasing sophistication of Web technology has made it possible to run complex behavioral experiments online using only a Web browser. Unlike with offline laboratory experiments, however, few tools exist to aid in the development of browser-based experiments. This makes the process of creating an experiment slow and challenging, particularly for researchers who lack a Web development background. This article introduces jsPsych, a JavaScript library for the development of Web-based experiments. jsPsych formalizes a way of describing experiments that is much simpler than writing the entire experiment from scratch. jsPsych then executes these descriptions automatically, handling the flow from one task to another. The jsPsych library is open-source and designed to be expanded by the research community. The project is available online at www.jspsych.org .
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ISSN:1554-3528
1554-3528
DOI:10.3758/s13428-014-0458-y