psynet 11.8.0

PsyNet – complex psychological experiments made easy

PsyNet is a powerful new Python package for designing and running the next generation of online behavioural experiments. It builds on the virtual lab framework Dallinger to streamline the development of highly complex experiment paradigms, ranging from simulated cultural evolution to perceptual prior estimation to adaptive psychophysical experiments. Once an experiment is implemented, it can be deployed with a single terminal command, which looks after server provisioning, participant recruitment, data-quality monitoring, and participant payment. Researchers using PsyNet can enjoy a paradigm shift in productivity, running many high-powered variants of the same experiment in the time it would ordinarily take to run an experiment once.

PsyNet is primarily developed by Peter Harrison, Frank Höger, Pol van Rijn, and Nori Jacoby, but we are grateful for many further contributions by other users.

To try some real-world PsyNet experiments for yourself, visit the following repositories:

• Consonance profiles for carillon bells
• Emotional connotations of musical scales
• Vocal pitch matching in musical chords

For more information about PsyNet, visit the documentation website.