The Virtual Lab
The Virtual Lab
Sunday, 15 February 2015: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM
Room LL21C (San Jose Convention Center)
Crowdsourcing sites like Amazon's Mechanical Turk are transforming social science by allowing researchers to conduct behavioral experiments in "virtual labs" on a scale and speed that would have been hard to imagine a decade ago. I describe recent experiments that showcase the advantages of virtual over traditional physical labs, as well as the limitations. I then discuss how this new technology may unfold in the near future, along with some implications for social and behavioral science.