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  • Psychology
  • Behavioral Science
  • Computational Social Science

Background:

  • Lack of coordinated efforts hinders the development and deployment of standardized behavioral and experimental paradigms in psychology research.
  • Existing frameworks offer infrastructure for individual groups but lack a unified system for easy paradigm deployment, leading to redundancy and replication difficulties.
  • The current reproducibility crisis in psychology underscores the need for standardized, deployable experimental paradigms for reliable research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce the Experiment Factory, an open-source framework designed for the development and deployment of web-based psychological experiments.
  • To provide a coordinated solution that overcomes the challenges of redundancy, divergent implementations, and poor documentation in experimental paradigm development.
  • To foster a collaborative community resource for psychological paradigms, thereby enhancing research reproducibility.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a modular, open-source framework (Experiment Factory) for creating and deploying web-based experiments.
  • Integrated experiments, virtual machines for deployment (local or cloud), and a central application for managing components.
  • Released a live deployment (http://www.expfactory.org) featuring over 80 standardized experiments for use with platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Main Results:

  • The Experiment Factory provides a unified infrastructure for both developing and deploying psychological experiments.
  • The framework supports the creation of over 80 standardized web-based experiments, currently utilized by researchers.
  • The open-source nature facilitates collaborative development and extension of the experimental paradigm library.

Conclusions:

  • The Experiment Factory offers a novel solution to improve reproducibility in the administration of behavioral experiments.
  • This open-source infrastructure has the potential to significantly accelerate scientific progress by providing a shared resource for psychological paradigms.
  • The framework promotes standardization, reduces development redundancy, and simplifies the replication of psychological research.