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Welcome to psychsurveys.org. Psychsurveys exists to support survey research in psychology and the social sciences. You can use psychsurveys.org to design your own web surveys, distribute email invitations to your surveys, track responses, and collect data.
Psychsurveys.org relies on donations to cover expenses. Please contribute to help keep the website going. For suggested donations, visit our donations page.
With any luck, you will find this site easy to use. Creating simple, basic surveys is a snap. Creating complex, dynamic surveys with random distribution of participants into groups, response based branching, and dynamic, participant-specific wording of survey text is also pretty easy. If you are computer and web saavy, jump right in. If you could use a little extra instruction, these help pages are for you.
Below are several lists of psychsurveys features. Click on any feature to jump to the help section for that feature.
Participant and Data Management Features
You can access the help pages at any time by clicking the Help tab at the top of the screen.
Context-specific help is also easy to find. Every page of the website is divided into sections, and each section has a title at the top. Just click on the title to get help on the section.
Throughout the help section, you will find text formatted like this. These paragraphs provide detailed or technical information that you should feel free to skip unless you want all the details you can get.
You will also find visual examples of some of the features of psychsurveys.org. These examples are provided as illustrations of the text, but they lack functionality. If you want to try using the features of the website, just click on the appropriate tab and experiment freely with the non-help sections of the website.
You can search the help pages by typing search terms into the Search Help box at the top of the help screen and clicking the Search button.
You can search the help pages for individual words or for exact phrases by putting the phrases "in quotes". By default, the search will only return results that match ALL of the words and phrases you entered. You can use parentheses along with OR and AND to perform more complicated searches.
Creating a new account is free. Simply fill in all the information under the heading Create Free Account when the Home tab is selected. The free part is not a trick. While we request that you donate to the site if you find it useful, there are no hidden costs that will jump out at you later on.
A valid email is needed to activate your account. The email you provide will be used if we need to contact you. It will also be the return email address survey participants will see if you invite them to take your survey via email. The contact name you provide will also appear in your return email address. We will never sell your email address or use it for any purpose other than to contact you.
You must include at least a brief description of your intended use of psychsurveys.org. We reserve the right to inspect your surveys to insure they are in alignment with our purpose: to support survey research in psychology and the social sciences. Though we may look at the content of your surveys, any data you collect will remain private and confidential.
Psychsurveys does NOT support market research, for-profit polling, or other primarily business related survey activities. If you are looking for a reasonably priced option to conduct these types of surveys over the web, we recommend trying Survey Monkey.
Usernames and passwords may consist of between 1 and 16 letters, numbers, or _underscores. Usernames are not case sensitive.
After you submit your new account information, you will receive an email with a link to activate your account. When you click the link in the email, you will see a message on the screen that says your account has been activated. You are then free to login.
To login, input your username and password. If you click the Remember Login box, your username and password will appear automatically whenever you open psychsurveys.org in this web browser on this computer.
If You Forget Your Username or Password
If you forget your username or password, don't worry. Just type your email address into the Account Login box on the Home page and click Send Login Info. Your login information will be emailed to you within seconds.
You can have more than one psychsurveys account with the same email address. If you do, when you click Send Login Info, you will get an email for each psychsurveys account you have. If you have not yet activated your account, the reminder email will include a link to click on to activate your account.
Updating Your Account Information
Once you are logged in, you can update your contact information and your password on the Home page.
If you update your email address, you will need to activate the new email address. An email will be immediately sent to the new email address with a link for you to click on to activate the email. We will keep using your old email address until you activate the new one.
Navigating Around psychsurveys.org
To get from one page to another, click the tabs at the top of each page.
The Surveys tab will not be clickable unless you are logged in. When the Surveys tab is selected, a second row of tabs will appear allowing you to work with your surveys, participant lists, survey invitations, and collected data.
To contact us, just click on the Contact tab and fill out the contact form.
You can also email us directly at one of the following email addresses.
Unfortunately, there is no phone number to call for immediate contact. Psychsurveys is volunteer run, so we are not available at all times. We will respond to your emails as quickly as we are able.
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