As regular readers know, I've been brushing up my CV
in anticipation of some application deadlines. This mostly means trying to move papers from the
in prep column to the
in submission column. (I'd love to get some new stuff into the
in press column, but with the glacial pace of review, that's unlikely to happen in the time frame I'm working with).
This means, unfortunately, I'm working during a beautiful Saturday morning. This would be more depressing if it weren't for the wonder that is
Amazon Mechanical Turk. I ran two experiments yesterday (48 subjects each), have another one running right now, and will shortly put up a fourth. The pleasure of getting new data --
of finding things out -- is why I'm in this field. It's almost as fun as walking along the river on a beautiful Saturday morning.
Almost.
How I feel about Amazon Mechanical Turk -- the psycholinguist's new best friend.
photo:
Daniel*1977
I just got back data from a survey in which we asked people to estimate how long different emotions are likely to last. We'll use this information to design a future experiment looking at how people expect emotions to be encoded in language. In the meantime, what struck me is that of all the emotions we asked about, the one that people expected to last the longest was "being head-over-heels in love". Which is awesome.