Measuring response speed

This experiment measures the speed at which you respond to positive and negative words.

Brian O'Shea. PhD Student, University of Warwick. b.oshea@warwick.ac.uk

What is involved if you agree to participate?

You will complete a reaction time (RT) computer based task and respond to some questions.

The RT task involves you sorting strongly positive and strongly negative words into categories.

Some participants may find the words distubing or unpleasant.

If you decide at any point you do not wish to continue the experiment please close the tab.

You can email the above researchers to get a full debriefing if you decide to discontinue the experiment.

The experiment takes about 6 minutes and must be completed in one sitting.

Privacy & Confidentiality

Participation is totally anonymous and data will be stored on the password-protected computers of the researcher named above.

Your anonymized data may be shared with other researchers outside of the University of Warwick.

If you are over the age of 18 and happy to participate in this experiment, please check the box below before proceeding.When you check the box a pink "Start" button will appear. Click this to continue.

I am happy to participate in this study.

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