π° The Alice Study π
Introduction
Participation in the Alice Study is open to all researchers in psychology who have experience with emotion research or related research (e.g., emotion regulation, coping etc). If you agree to participate, you will be asked to complete 2 sequential study tasks. We expect these 2 tasks will take about 1 hour in total. You will have 2 weeks to complete each task, at your convenience (and neither task has to be completed in one sitting). We will invite all participants as co-authors on the final manuscript. All materials and fully de-identified data will be posted on the Open Science Framework.
The study
Definitions of psychological constructs (e.g., βattitudeβ) tend to be very brief. This means that using the constructs in research requires (typically undisclosed or even unconsidered) elaboration to obtain construct definitions that are sufficiently comprehensive to allow for operationalization and measurement. To explore heterogeneity that may result from this lack of comprehensiveness, we are conducting an asynchronous qualitative study where we ask researchers with expertise in emotion and related research (e.g. emotion regulation, coping, etc) to specify comprehensive construct definitions from 1) a set of scale items taken from an existing scale and 2) original, brief construct definitions.
Joining
If you would like to participate in this study, please contact Talea Cornelius and Gjalt-Jorn Peters by sending an email to alice@explicate.opens.science. You will then receive the informed consent. After this form is complete, we will send you the first task in OpenDocument format, which you can open with all major text processors (e.g., Word or LibreOffice). We ask that you email the first task back to us once it is complete, and we will then send a document with the second task.
Snowballing
If you know other researchers that may like to participate, it would be great if you could share their contact information.