Crowdsourced psychological and other biobehavioral research using platforms like
Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is increasingly common–but has proliferated more …

Understanding the public's perceptions of child pornography helps identify gaps in
awareness and knowledge, impacts legislative decision making, quantifies stigmatization …

We propose that the COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions to daily life that followed had
greater negative impact on the mental health, as measured by psychological distress, of …

Background Overdose education and naloxone distribution (OEND) to laypersons are key
approaches to reduce the incidence of opioid-involved overdoses. While some research has …

Background The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in significant changes to adolescents'
daily lives and, potentially, to their mental health. The pandemic has also disproportionately …

Background: The overdose epidemic in the United States has continued to worsen despite
substantial efforts to mitigate its harms. The opioid antagonist naloxone has been identified …

BACKGROUND: Modern Child Sexual Exploitation Material (CSEM) offences predominantly
occur within a technological ecosystem. The behaviours and cognitions of CSEM offenders …

Verbal data provide researchers insight beyond that offered by text-based responses,
including tone, reasoning elaboration, and experienced difficulty, among other processes …

Careless responding behavior on online surveys is an insidious problem that can distort
research findings in concerning and counter-intuitive ways (McGonagle, Huang, & Walsh …

This work investigates how visual and spoken cues of virtual agents interact to affect user
perception of agent trustworthiness. It is directly motivated by practical applications, such as …