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The Online Psychology Lab is an open-source website for the collection of activities and experiments that can be used in psychology courses. This website was created by Dr. Martin Shapiro, a professor of Psychology at California State University. The labs were created by Dr. Shapiro, students, and other collaborators. The activity labs were designed to use interactive websites to create engaging, enjoyable, and educational experiences. All the experiment labs were approved by the Internal Review Board (IRB) for the use of human participants in research. Excel spreadsheets of data collected in these experiments are available for individual analysis. Identifying information such as participant’s names, IP addresses, university attending, and locations (longitude and latitude) were removed from the spreadsheets before being made available.
If you have a creative idea for an activity or experiment lab and would like to make it available to other educators, please contact Dr. Shapiro (mashapiro@csufresno.edu). The goal is to create a repository of engaging activities to benefit the experience of students. If you wish to add a lab, you will have the final say in the design of the lab and your name and school will be put at the top of the lab. Creating a lab may also be a good project for student(s).
About Martin Shapiro, Ph.D.
Martin Shapiro is a professor of psychology at California State University, Fresno, and the program director for a new neuroscience major in the College of Science and Math. For several years, he was the chair of a task force for high-impact practices and project-based learning at CSU Fresno. His primary research interests are in animal behavior, decision-making, behavioral economics, and psychophysiology. Dr. Shapiro has authored two textbooks available through Flatworld publishing: Biopsychology: Fundamentals and Contemporary Issues (2019) and The Science of Psychology: Connections and Contemporary Issues (Fall, 2023). He has taught courses in biopsychology, motivation, learning, senses, and perception, and he has also developed and taught courses on global challenges as part of AASCU's Global Challenges Initiative. Dr. Shapiro has received several teaching awards from CSU Fresno, including a University Provost award for using technology in teaching, the Psychology Department’s instructor-of-the-year honor, and the student-selected Faculty Lecture Series Award.
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