  Human Subjects for ExperimentsResearchers on campus interested in doing experimental research have a number of options for recruiting participants. These options are described below. TESS – Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social SciencesOPPORTUNITY FOR FREE DATA COLLECTION FOR YOU: You have the opportunity to collect FREE national survey data of very high quality if you act now. The opportunity is provided by TESS (Time-sharing Experiments in the Social Sciences), an NSF-funded project that accepts proposals from any researchers (grad students and faculty) to conduct social science experiments with representative national samples of American adults. You write a set of questions to be asked of respondents and build in experimental manipulations. Then you give the questions to the TESS staff, who arrange for the data to be collected for you by Knowledge Networks, a survey firm based in Menlo Park (how convenient!). Then they give you the data just a few weeks later. Many Stanford faculty and graduate students have been successful in getting their proposals (click for more details) accepted by TESS, including:
You, too, can join this list if you like (and you might want to ask these people for advice on how to write a successful proposal). If you're interested, DON'T WAIT – the current grant supporting TESS will end soon, so you want to submit your proposal right away before the money runs out. There is no formal deadline for getting proposals in. If you have questions, ask Jon Krosnick (Krosnick@stanford.edu), director of MAPSS. Further details, including information on how to submit proposals and the review process, can be found at the TESS web-site. Stanford Psychology DepartmentResearchers affiliated with the psychology department can recruit subjects from the PSYCH 1 subject pool. Students enrolled in PSYCH 1 (194 students took this class in Autumn 2005) are required to participate in seven hours of research per quarter. Researchers can post experiments online through the ExperimenTrak system. Students can then sign up to participate in specific studies. Researchers are allocated subject hours for which they are can assign course credit. There is also a paid subject pool available to researchers at Stanford Psychology. Anybody can sign up to be a subject. Many former PSYCH 1 students sign up to this list. An e-mail list is maintained that researchers can use to announce paid studies. Researchers in the psychology department must complete an application in order to gain access to either of these subject pools. More details can be found on the Stanford Psychology resources page. Stanford Graduate School of Business - Behavioral LabThe Behavioral Lab based in the Graduate School of Business here at Stanford maintains two human subject pools for behavioral research by scholars associated with the GSB. A sample of internet-based participants from across the U.S. is available for online studies. Using ExperimenTrak software subjects can be targeted based on geographic location or demographics or for having had experience or lacking experience of a particular study, and can be randomly assigned. This subject pool is available for use by Stanford GSB researchers, but there is no support for research design and implementation. Researchers are responsible for compensating participants. Electronic Amazon.com gift certificates and monetary payments through PayPal have been used successfully for this purpose. The Behavioral Lab also maintains an on-campus human subjects pool. Undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty and staff are recruited to this pool, as are members of the general public in the area. The pool is available only to GSB researchers and researchers working on collaborative projects with GSB researchers. The facilities at the Behavioral Lab include physical space, computers, and a camera-equipped room. Support for research design and implementation is available for researchers who qualify to use the facilities. Researchers using this pool must compensate subjects at a rate of at least $15 for a 3/4 - 1 hour period. The Behavioral Lab is located in the basement of the West Wing of Littlefield Management Center. You can visit the Behavioral Lab online here.
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