Participate in a social psychology study that is being conducted on the Internet. Explain your experience and discuss the results.
http://www.socialpsychology.org/expts.htm The Social Psychology Network maintains a page linking to studies that are being conducted on the World Wide Web in a variety of areas in social psychology.
http://psych.hanover.edu/research/exponnet.html The American Psychological Society maintains a page linking to studies that are being conducted over the Internet in a variety of areas in psychology, including social psychology.
What are the pros and cons of conducting psychological research on the
Internet?
http://www.apa.org/monitor/apr00/research.html
This article from the American Psychological Association's Monitor on Psychology discusses using the Web for collecting data and includes resources for setting up these kinds of studies.
How do professional societies and governmental agencies try to ensure that researchers conduct their research and treat their research participants in an ethical fashion?
http://www.apa.org/ethics/code.html The American Psychological Association maintains an extensive code of ethics that applies to all aspects of psychological practice, including research.
