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A new use for Facebook in research

April 8, 2008

coglanglab's picture

Both sociologists and market researchers have been using Facebook for a few years now in order study human activity. I recently came across a new use: developing stimuli.
A colleague is using a Facebook group to collect photographs for a face perception/memory study. Read about it here.



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