A primer on running human behavioural experiments online

Probability Primer 1 Running head: PROBABILITY PRIMER A Primer on Probabilistic Inference

Primer effects of a brood pheromone on honeybee behavioural development.

Primer pheromones are thought to act in a variety of vertebrates and invertebrates but only a few have been chemically identified. We report that a blend of ten fatty-acid esters found on the cuticles of honeybee larvae, already known as a kairomone, releaser pheromone and primer pheromone, also act as a primer pheromone in the regulation of division of labour among adult workers. Bees in colon...

Running experiments on DipGame testbed (demonstration)

DipGame is a testbed for MAS negotiation involving humans. It is very appropriate to run experiments that mix humans and agents. In this demonstration we introduce an application to facilitate the execution of experiments on several machines and with a friendly graphical user interface.

Running experiments on Amazon Mechanical Turk

Although Mechanical Turk has recently become popular among social scientists as a source of experimental data, doubts may linger about the quality of data provided by subjects recruited from online labor markets. We address these potential concerns by presenting new demographic data about the Mechanical Turk subject population, reviewing the strengths of Mechanical Turk relative to other online...

Optimistic and pessimistic biases: a primer for behavioural ecologists

To address the adaptive value of optimism/pessimism an operational definition is required. I define a behavioural decision as relatively optimistic if it is consistent with the animal having either, a higher expectation of reward, or a lower expectation of punishment (threat), than the same animal in a different state (or a different animal). Pessimism is the inverse of optimism. Such relative ...