Helpful Links

Social Science Organizations and Internet Resources

• American Psychological Association
• American Psychological Society
• Athabasca University Psychology Resources
• Dr. Grohl's Psych Central
• Psych Web
• Social Science Information Gateway
• Social Psychology Network

Online Publications, Links, and Resources

• The Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) Database -- A great database for finding the right research instrument. Available in most college libraries.
• Ethical and Legal Aspects of Human Subjects Research on the Internet (PDF)
• Research Online: Human Participants Ethics Issues
• University of New Hampshire IRB documents
• AOIR (Association of Internet Researchers) Ethics Working Committee – a preliminary report
• Online Data Collection in Social and Educational Research Methodological and Ethical Issues

Writing your Informed Consent Page: Online Resources

• Tips on Informed Consent: The Social Psychology Network
• APA's policy on Informed Consent
• An Overview of Informed Consent Issues: University of Minnesota
• Informed Consent Tips: Indiana University
• Informed Consent Tips: University of New Hampshire (PDF)

Journal Articles and Books

• Barry, D.T. (2001). Assessing culture via the Internet: Methods and techniques for psychological research. CyberPsychology & Behavior. Special Issue. Vol 4(1), pp. 17-21.
• Birnbaum, M.H. (Ed.). (2000). Psychological Experiments on the Internet. San Diego: Academic Press.
• Buchanan, T. (2000). Internet research: Self-monitoring and judgments of attractiveness. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers. Vol 32(4), pp. 521-527.
• Hewson, C. M., Laurent, D., & Vogel, C. M. (1996). Proper methodologies for psychological and sociological studies conducted via the internet. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 28, 186-191.
• Joinson, A.N. (2001). Knowing me, knowing you: Reciprocal self-disclosure in Internet-based surveys. CyberPsychology & Behavior. Vol 4(5), pp. 587-591.
• Rossi, P. H., Wright, J. D., & Anderson, A. B. (1983). Handbook of Survey Research. New York: Academic Press.

News

• Online experiments: ethically fair or foul? Researchers are facing new ethical challenges as they conduct experiments on the World Wide Web. (APA Monitor, Volume 31, No. 4, April 2000)
• A Web of research -- They're fun, they're fast and they save money, but do Web experiments yield quality results? (APA Monitor, Volume 31, No. 4, April 2000)