A jsPsych plugin for visual analogue scales

Kinley, Isaac

doi:10.31234/osf.io/avj92

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“…Thus, it may be that the visual metaphor employed by IOS-type scales is particularly effective at measuring a form of self-continuity that relates more closely to temporal discounting. Recently-developed web-based implementations of measures like this (Kinley and van Vugt, 2023;Beranek and Castillo, 2022) could enable future research to explore this possibility.…”

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Goal-directed behaviour is associated with decreased temporal discounting

Kinley

2024

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Reinforcement learning models are broadly classified as model-based algorithms, which use an internal model of the environment to plan and carry out goal-directed behaviour, or model-free algorithms, which lack such a model and behave in a more habitual manner. Humans differ in the extent to which their decision making resembles that of model-based or model-free algorithms; the degree of this resemblance is related to individual differences in compulsivity, and is also argued to be related to the ability to imagine and make decisions about the future. Here, we demonstrate that individuals who exhibit more model-based decision making tend to more frequently choose larger rewards later over smaller rewards sooner in an intertemporal choice task. However, surprisingly, model-free decision making was correlated with the specificity of personal future event narratives in an episodic future thinking task. Participants who provided more specific narratives had slower response times across all tasks, and may therefore have been more affected by time pressure in the reinforcement learning task, resulting in increased model-free decision making. We comment on the role of time pressure in behavioural tasks of the type used here. Future self-continuity, a construct conceptually related to imagining and making decisions about the future, was not found to be related to temporal discounting, model-based or model-free decision making, or episodic future thinking.

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Goal-directed behaviour is associated with decreased temporal discounting

Kinley

2024

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“…This flexibility of abstraction is a key feature of jsPsych, and part of what makes it a particularly powerful way of declaratively creating experiments. jsPsych v7.2 includes 50 plugins, and many more plugins have been developed by the research community (e.g., Callaway et al, 2017;Rajananda, Lau, & Odegaard, 2018;Kuroki, 2021;Galang et al, 2021;Strittmatter, Spitzer, & Kiesel, 2021;Cousineau, 2021;Gibeau, 2021;Donhauser & Klein, 2021;Kinley, 2022).…”

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Simulating behavior to help researchers build experiments

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Simulating Behavior to Help Researchers Build Experiments

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Gilbert²,

Petrov³

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Testing that an experiment works as intended is critical for identifying design problems and catching technical errors that could invalidate the results. Testing is also time consuming because of the need to manually run the experiment. This makes testing the experiment costly for researchers, and therefore testing is less comprehensive than testing in other kinds of software development where tools to automate and speed up the testing process are widely used. In this paper, we describe an approach that substantially reduces the time required to test behavioral experiments: automated simulation of participant behavior. We describe how software that is used to build experiments can use information contained in the experiment's code to automatically generate plausible participant behavior. We demonstrate this through an implementation using jsPsych. We then describe four potential scenarios where automated simulation of participant behavior can improve the way researchers build experiments. Each scenario includes a demo and accompanying code. The full set of examples can be found at https://jspsych.github.io/simulation-examples/.

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A jsPsych plugin for visual analogue scales

Cited by 8 publications

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Goal-directed behaviour is associated with decreased temporal discounting

Goal-directed behaviour is associated with decreased temporal discounting

Simulating behavior to help researchers build experiments

Simulating Behavior to Help Researchers Build Experiments

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