[Air-l] CALL FOR PAPERS INTERNET-BASED PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTING (SPECIAL ISSUE OF "EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY")

Ulf Reips ureips at genpsy.unizh.ch
Wed Aug 22 08:23:32 PDT 2001


Dear colleague, it is our pleasure to send you the following call.
Best wishes,
ur and jm

CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNET-BASED PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTING
(SPECIAL ISSUE OF "EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY")

++++++++++++++++  Apologies for cross posting ++++++++++++++++++
++++++ There is also a nicely formatted version of this call at ++++++++
++++++++++  http://www.genpsy.unizh.ch/webexpps/ +++++++++++++

"Experimental Psychology" (the upcoming successor of the German
"Zeitschrift fuer Experimentelle Psychologie", now appearing in
English language) is pleased to announce a special issue on
"Internet-based psychological experimenting".

Guest editors will be Ulf-Dietrich Reips (University of Zurich,
Switzerland) and Jochen Musch (University of Bonn, Germany).

INTERNET-BASED PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTING

To provide a forum for the critical discussion of a major new
methodological trend in current psychological research, "Experimental
Psychology" will publish a special issue on conducting experiments in
the Internet. This special issue will focus on methodological,
empirical, and theoretical approaches to Web experimentation in
psychology. We particularly welcome manuscripts that report
innovative, original, high-quality experimental research.  Although
the special issue will emphasize empirical reports, there will also be
room for one theoretical or review paper.

One major focus of the special issue will be the methodologically
sound use of the Internet for conducting fundamental and applied
psychological experiments. The scope of the special issue is defined
by the experimental method, and thus, papers based on experiments and
quasi-experiments from all areas of psychology are invited. To name
just a few typical fields and domains of inquiry, this includes - but
is not limited to - experimental work on social cognition, thinking,
problem-solving, decision-making, judgment, perception, learning,
language, memory, and research methods in psychology. Correlational
research without an experimental manipulation is not considered
suitable for the special issue. Although the World Wide Web is most
frequently used for psychological research on the Internet, all other
forms of Internet experimentation are also of interest.

A second major focus of the special issue will be the methodology of
Web experimenting. What are the pros and cons of Internet research?
How can the internal and external validity of Web experiments be
determined and increased? Which advanced techniques allow for greater
control and avoidance of pitfalls in Internet experiments? What are
the features of experiments that make them suitable for the Internet,
and what kind of experiments should better be conducted in a
non-virtual environment? Which problems have come up during the six
years of Web experimentation, and what solutions can be offered? We
welcome the submission of all papers addressing one or more of these
and related questions on psychological online research. Of particular
interest will be papers comparing the results of Web experiments with
those of laboratory or field experiments.

Manuscript Submission

Empirical articles may contain up to 10,000 words including tables and
references, and up to six figures. Theoretical and review articles of
particular interest may exceed this page limit. Papers should be
submitted via e-mail (webexppsy at genpsy.unizh.ch) to Ulf-Dietrich Reips
and Jochen Musch. The deadline for submissions is February 1st, 2002.
All papers will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers and the
best papers will be published in a special issue of "Experimental
Psychology" in late 2002.

The following formats are accepted for submissions: pdf, rtf, doc, and
wpd (in order of preference). Almost all applications can save files
in one of these formats. Manuscripts should be submitted as one file
containing text, tables, and all figures. The file should be named
after the last name of the first author, and its extension should
designate its format;  e.g., smith.doc may be an appropriate file
name. For production purposes, Microsoft Word (.doc) or WordPerfect
files (.wpd) will be requested for the final version of the
manuscript.

The file should be an attachment to an e-mail in which

- Contact information for the corresponding author is provided
   (name, department, postal address, e-mail address, phone, fax),
- As well as contact information for all other authors,
- The type of manuscript submitted (theoretical article or research
   article) is specified,
- The number of words is given for the entire article including
   abstract and references,
- A text version of the title and abstract is included,
- As well as any other information that may be important to guarantee
   a fair and unbiased review process.

Submission of manuscripts is taken to imply that neither the
manuscript, nor any component of it, has already been published or is
currently under consideration by another journal. Submitted
manuscripts should conform to the APA guidelines for manuscript
preparation. Based on the title and abstract, two or more reviewers
will be requested to review the manuscript. Based on the reviews and
their own judgment of the manuscripts, the action editors will make
their editorial decision and will notify the corresponding author of
the decision. The entire review process will completely rely on
electronic communication in order to ensure speedy processing.

For further inquiries, please contact the editors of the special issue
of "Experimental Psychology" on "Internet-based psychological
experimenting":

Ulf-Dietrich Reips, ureips at genpsy.unizh.ch
http://www.psych.unizh.ch/genpsy/reips/reipspers.html

or Jochen Musch, jochen.musch at uni-bonn.de
http://www.psychologie.uni-bonn.de/sozial/staff/musch/musch.htm

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Experimental Psychology
(formerly "Zeitschrift fuer Experimentelle Psychologie")

Editor-in-Chief:                K.C. Klauer (Bonn, Germany)
Editorial Board:                A. Friederici (Leipzig, Germany),
A. G. Greenwald (Seattle, USA), O. Huber (Fribourg, Switzerland),
G. Humphreys (Birmingham, UK),  H. Schriefers (Nijmegen, Netherlands).


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