Department of Psychology, Hanover College, 417 Ball Dr, Hanover, IN, 47243, USA.
Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany.
Behav Res Methods. 2017 Oct;49(5):1621-1629. doi: 10.3758/s13428-017-0882-x.
The first papers that reported on conducting psychological research on the web were presented at the Society for Computers in Psychology conference 20 years ago, in 1996. Since that time, there has been an explosive increase in the number of studies that use the web for data collection. As such, it seems a good time, 20 years on, to examine the health and adoption of sound practices of research on the web. The number of studies conducted online has increased dramatically. Overall, it seems that the web can be a method for conducting valid psychological studies. However, it is less clear that students and researchers are aware of the nature of web research. While many studies are well conducted, there is also a certain laxness appearing regarding the design and conduct of online studies. This laxness appears both anecdotally to the authors as managers of large sites for posting links to online studies, and in a survey of current researchers. One of the deficiencies discovered is that there is no coherent approach to educating researchers as to the unique features of web research.
20 年前，也就是 1996 年，在计算机心理学协会会议上首次发表了关于在网络上进行心理学研究的论文。从那时起，使用网络进行数据收集的研究数量呈爆炸式增长。因此，在 20 年之后的今天，检查网络研究的健康状况和采用合理实践的时机似乎已经成熟。在线进行的研究数量急剧增加。总的来说，网络似乎可以成为进行有效心理学研究的一种方法。然而，学生和研究人员是否了解网络研究的性质还不太清楚。虽然许多研究都进行得很好，但在设计和进行在线研究时也出现了一定程度的松懈。这种松懈不仅是作为管理大型链接到在线研究网站的作者的直观感受，而且在对当前研究人员的调查中也有所体现。发现的缺陷之一是，没有一个连贯的方法来教育研究人员了解网络研究的独特特征。
