Are women really more risk‐averse than men? A re‐analysis of the literature using expanded methods

JA Nelson - Journal of economic surveys, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
While a substantial literature in economics and finance has concluded that 'women are more
risk averse than men', this conclusion merits investigation. After briefly clarifying the …

A critical review of sex differences in decision-making tasks: Focus on the Iowa Gambling Task

R van den Bos, J Homberg, L de Visser - Behavioural brain research, 2013‏ - Elsevier
It has been observed that men and women show performance differences in the Iowa
Gambling Task (IGT), a task of decision-making in which subjects through exploration learn …

An MTurk crisis? Shifts in data quality and the impact on study results

M Chmielewski, SC Kucker - Social Psychological and …, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is arguably one of the most important research tools of
the past decade. The ability to rapidly collect large amounts of high-quality human subjects …

Crowdsourcing consumer research

JK Goodman, G Paolacci - Journal of Consumer Research, 2017‏ - academic.oup.com
Data collection in consumer research has progressively moved away from traditional
samples (eg, university undergraduates) and toward Internet samples. In the last complete …

Inside the Turk: Understanding Mechanical Turk as a participant pool

G Paolacci, J Chandler - Current directions in psychological …, 2014‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an online labor market created by Amazon, has recently become
popular among social scientists as a source of survey and experimental data. The workers …

Separate but equal? A comparison of participants and data gathered via Amazon's MTurk, social media, and face-to-face behavioral testing

K Casler, L Bickel, E Hackett - Computers in human behavior, 2013‏ - Elsevier
Recent and emerging technology permits psychologists today to recruit and test participants
in more ways than ever before. But to what extent can behavioral scientists trust these varied …

Data collection in a flat world: The strengths and weaknesses of Mechanical Turk samples

JK Goodman, CE Cryder… - Journal of Behavioral …, 2013‏ - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Mechanical Turk (MTurk), an online labor system run by Amazon. com, provides
quick, easy, and inexpensive access to online research participants. As use of MTurk has …

A reliability analysis of Mechanical Turk data

SV Rouse - Computers in Human Behavior, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Amazon's Mechanical Turk (MTurk) provides researchers with access to a diverse
set of people who can serve as research participants, making the process of data collection …

Conducting behavioral research on Amazon's Mechanical Turk

W Mason, S Suri - Behavior research methods, 2012‏ - Springer
Abstract Amazon's Mechanical Turk is an online labor market where requesters post jobs
and workers choose which jobs to do for pay. The central purpose of this article is to …

Running experiments on amazon mechanical turk

G Paolacci, J Chandler, PG Ipeirotis - Judgment and Decision …, 2010‏ - cambridge.org
Although Mechanical Turk has recently become popular among social scientists as a source
of experimental data, doubts may linger about the quality of data provided by subjects …