Psychological research online - Report of board of scientific affairs' advisory group on the conduct of research on the Internet
Psychological research online - Report of board of scientific affairs' advisory group on the conduct of research on the Internet
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DOI：
10.1037/0003-066x.59.2.105
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发表时间：
2004-02-01
影响因子：
16.4
通讯作者：
Couper, M
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作者：
Kraut, R;Olson, J;Couper, M
随着互联网改变了通信、商业和信息传播，它也在改变心理学研究。心理学家可以在线观察新的或罕见的现象，并可以更有效地对传统的心理学主题进行研究，使他们能够扩大研究的规模和范围。然而，这些机会对研究质量和人类受试者都带来了风险。互联网研究本质上并不比传统的观察、调查或实验方法更具风险。然而，它们的风险和防范措施将与传统研究的特征不同，而且本身也会随着时间的推移而变化。本文介绍了通过互联网进行心理学研究的一些好处和挑战，并为研究人员和机构审查委员会提供了处理这些问题的建议。
As the Internet has changed communication, commerce, and the distribution of information, so too it is changing psychological research. Psychologists can observe new or rare phenomena online and can do research on traditional psychological topics more efficiently, enabling them to expand the scale and scope of their research. Yet these opportunities entail risk both to research quality and to human subjects. Internet research is inherently no more risky than traditional observational, survey, or experimental methods. Yet the risks and safeguards against them will differ from those characterizing traditional research and will themselves change over time. This article describes some benefits, and challenges of conducting psychological research via the Internet and offers recommendations to both researchers and institutional review boards for dealing with them.