psiTurk

Authors: Todd M. GureckisJay MartinJohn McDonnellAlexander S. RichDoug MarkantAnna CoenenDavid HalpernJessica B. HamrickPatricia Chan
Updated: Tue 05 October 2021
Source: https://psiturk.org/
Type: Python & JavaScript
Languages: cross-linguistic
Keywords: psychologydatabaseexperimentPythonJavaScript
Open Access: yes
License: MIT license
Documentation: https://psiturk.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Publications: Gureckis, T.M., Martin, J., McDonnell, J. et al. (2016).
Citation: Gureckis, T.M., Martin, J., McDonnell, J. et al. (2016). psiTurk: An open-source framework for conducting replicable behavioral experiments online. Behavior Research Methods. 48, 829–842. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-015-0642-8
Summary:

psiTurk, is an open-source platform which helps researchers develop experiment designs which can be conducted over the Internet. The tool primarily interfaces with Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a popular crowd-sourcing labor market. psiTurk aims to reduce the technical hurdles for researchers developing online experiments while improving the transparency and collaborative nature of the behavioral sciences. psiTurk provides a Python-based web server and associated JavaScript library for conducting experiments on the web, saving experimental data to a database, and restricting the participant pool according to the experimenter’s needs (e.g., to prevent from repeating a study). It also provides a command-line interface with AMT to create and test new projects as well as to manage and pay participants. Finally, in the spirit of the recent “open science” movement (Open Science Collaboration 2012), it provides an open-source Experiment Exchange for sharing experiments that can be easily replicated and extended by other researchers.