It is common practice to research human behavior using experiments that participants can
complete online. Researchers use a variety of methodological approaches to conduct these …

INTRODUCTION Music is often assumed to be a human universal, emerging from an
evolutionary adaptation specific to music and/or a by-product of adaptations for affect …

The dominant paradigm of experiments in the social and behavioral sciences views an
experiment as a test of a theory, where the theory is assumed to generalize beyond the …

Board, card or video games have been played by virtually every individual in the world.
Games are popular because they are intuitive and fun. These distinctive qualities of games …

Tonal languages differ from other languages in their use of pitch (tones) to distinguish
words. Lifelong experience speaking and hearing tonal languages has been argued to …

Widespread failures of replication and generalization are, ironically, a scientific triumph, in
that they confirm the fundamental metascientific theory that underlies our field …

When interacting with infants, humans often alter their speech and song in ways thought to
support communication. Theories of human child-rearing, informed by data on vocal …

Some human behaviors have serious societal consequences, but these consequences tend
to be neglected in online research on societally relevant behaviors. For example, human …

Virtual labs allow researchers to design high-throughput and macro-level experiments that
are not feasible in traditional in-person physical lab settings. Despite the increasing …

Decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) are a new, rapidly-growing class of
organizations governed by smart contracts. Here we describe how researchers can …