Help! stressed out dissi time

[shek1_11]

Hey guys,

I'm doing my dissertation on the dark triad traits narcissism, psychopathy and I was just wondering since its related to the forum would you take time to do my questionnaire. It doesn't take a long time and is 100% anonymous. I need more participants so your input would be much appreciated.

http://www.esurveycreator.com/s/personalityresearch

Thanks.

[lewin]

I don't want to be crabby, but do you think that explicitly telling people the study is about "dark triad" traits or narcissism might create social desirability concerns and bias your results? Seriously.

[BeingThere]

Hey guys,

I'm doing my dissertation on the dark triad traits narcissism, psychopathy and I was just wondering since its related to the forum would you take time to do my questionnaire. It doesn't take a long time and is 100% anonymous. I need more participants so your input would be much appreciated.

http://www.esurveycreator.com/s/personalityresearch

Thanks.

 

Shek1_11,

Have you looked into using Amazon Mechanical Turk?  You can get participants at a very small cost.  I collected data for a study recently using that and it worked very well.  I did have to spend a little money, but it was very, very little.  If you have any funds at all, you might want to look into it.  Most people on this forum (psychology, graduate students or seniors/juniors) are likely going to recognize questions re machiavellianism or narcissism, etc (to echo Lewin's concern about socially desirable responding).

 

You can link an existing survey to MTurk.  Just a thought. 

[lewin]

Just FYI, MTurk doesn't allow requesters from outside the United States, though there are some workarounds like getting a friend with a U.S. credit card or going through an intermediary company that uses MTurk's AOI (e.g. CrowdFlower). They won't confirm but we all think it's something to do with money laundering laws, e.g., people outside the country funneling money to people inside.

Edited March 26, 2014 by lewin

[BeingThere]

Just FYI, MTurk doesn't allow requesters from outside the United States, though there are some workarounds like getting a friend with a U.S. credit card or going through an intermediary company that uses MTurk's AOI (e.g. CrowdFlower). They won't confirm but we all think it's something to do with money laundering laws, e.g., people outside the country funneling money to people inside.

Thanks, Lewin.  I did not know that.  Bummer.