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looking for participants in a fun word association #203715
12/08/11 09:36 AM 12/08/11 09:36 AMJoined: Dec 2011
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belgium stormsOP
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belgium Dear all,
Word associations have been very important in the study of word meanings in cognitive science. Currently, different professors are trying to build a network of word associations in English. In order to do this, we need many native (or at least very fluent) English speakers to participate in a small fun tast that does not take more than five minutes. In the task, we present a short list of words and ask people to write down the first three words they think of after reading the cue word. In order to build the network, we need about 100 participants responding to every cue word and we need thousands of cue words. That implies that we need thousands of participants. It seems a lot, but we've done this before: we succeeded over the past few years of reaching about 80.000 perticipants in Flanders and in the Netherlands to do the task in Dutch. However, since English is THE scientific language worldwide, it would be much more interesting to build a similar network in English. So if you have five minutes of spare time, please visit
http://www.smallworldofwords.com
As the dataset will be open for all interested scientists, you will help many of us by participating. It would even be better if you can spread this call by e-mail, facebook, or other means. If you have suggestions about other ways in which we can reach people willing to participate in this small task, please don't hesitate to contact us. My coordinates are given below.
With kind regards,
Professor Dr. Gert Storms
Department of Psychology
University of Leuven
Tiensestraat 102
3000 Leuven
Belgium
E-mail: gert.storms@psy.kuleuven.be
Re: looking for participants in a fun word association [Re: storms] #203731
12/09/11 01:38 AM 12/09/11 01:38 AMJoined: Mar 2000
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Louisville, Kentucky Jackie![]()
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Louisville, Kentucky Whew--I was afraid it was going to be timed! Thanks for not making it so. I did give honest answers but there were several I couldn't think of in, say, two seconds or a similar limit.
Edit: good luck with this study.
Re: looking for participants in a fun word association [Re: Jackie] #203744
12/09/11 07:50 PM 12/09/11 07:50 PMJoined: Jun 2006
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Netherlands, the Hague BranShea![]()
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Netherlands, the Hague Jee, I got through this almost but in the before-last one which was an association with the word 'such' a spontanious less pretty word came out. It looks like the machine does not accept slang.
Re: looking for participants in a fun word association [Re: BranShea] #203758
12/10/11 02:42 AM 12/10/11 02:42 AMJoined: Sep 2010
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down under Candy![]()
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down under I was just getting into it....and it finished
Re: looking for participants in a fun word association [Re: Candy] #203762
12/10/11 12:05 PM 12/10/11 12:05 PMJoined: Jun 2006
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Netherlands, the Hague BranShea![]()
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Netherlands, the Hague Did you start with asshole maybe?
Re: looking for participants in a fun word association [Re: storms] #217123
06/16/14 05:01 AM 06/16/14 05:01 AMJoined: Dec 2008
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Victoria, Australia Bazr![]()
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Victoria, Australia I thought I was going to run out of time, but I did it.
Look forward to the results.
live in the moment
Re: looking for participants in a fun word association [Re: storms] #221083
05/21/15 05:34 AM 05/21/15 05:34 AMJoined: Apr 2015
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CRAP! Like I put a dollar bill in a change machine and nothing came out.
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