Behavioral Science Research Tips

If you want to include a depression health screening questionnaire from an external site in your survey, and you want participants to be able to take the survey without recording their responses, you could include the following in your HTML view of your question:

<iframe frameborder="0" height="800" scrolling="yes" src="https://screening.mentalhealthamerica.net/screening-tools/depression" width="100%"></iframe>

Then, your question will look as follows and participants will be able to interact with the external website/screen without leaving the qualtrics survey.

Note: you can also write “no” after scrolling= if you don’t want participants to be able to move around on the external page.

Java Script for Qualtrics:

In order to edit the length of the timer, just replace this number with the time you would like to set: 

To edit the font and alignment, replace the styling with your preferences: 

To specify where you want the survey to auto-advance participants to, replace the URL with either the URL of the webpage, survey, or other location you want participants advanced to when time runs out:

-Make sure you have the most recent version of R

-where it says “consumer_key_nt”, replace all of that text with your personal consumer key set in quotations. You will get this key and secrete code/tokens when you create your new twitter application via the previous step

View the version you want to restore.

And select “Restore Revision”

1. Go to the “Distributions” page in your Qualtrics survey. 

2. Click “Compose Email”

3. This icon is present in the upper left corner of the rich content editor:

Click that icon and select the question you want to embed and the color scheme you would like. Then, when the email is sent, the question you selected will show up in the body of the text:

1. Go into the survey flow of your Qualtrics survey and create a new Embedded field labeled “Referer” 

2. Re-download your data set. You will see that the “Referer” column will have a long URL for each participant.

3. Within each of these URLs is the workerID or MTurk ID for each participant:

Example: 

4. In Excel, use the formula to trim and/or extract a subset of characters from a string for each cell to capture only the workerID information (here is a link with more information on that formula if you need it).

5. Now re-pair these IDs with your original data and grant them bonuses :)

The Aron et al. (1992) overlapping circles question is often used as a measure for self-other interconnectedness. Often, it’s presented as seven options on a likert scale with seven sets of overlapping circles. Using the instructions in the website below, you can make a continuous measure of this question wherein participants drag one circle to overlap with the other on their own to indicate the percent of overlap they perceive between the two entities. This allows you to capture a more flexible, continuous measurement of interconnectedness from 0% to 100%.

Here’s an example: https://hbs.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1YBLPO1pZIEGgZf

1. Download the macro by downloading the zip file for the Wilson macro found at this website: http://mason.gmu.edu/~dwilsonb/ma.html

2. Create an spss data set that includes a line for each study you want to include in the analysis. For each study, you should have a column for the study id number, d cohen’s value (effect size, ES), the variance (v), and the inverse weighting value. You can easily find the ES value and v if you have your t/f statistic and sample size by using this website: https://www.campbellcollaboration.org/escalc/html/EffectSizeCalculator-SMD-main.php. To calculate the inverse weighting, simply calculate 1/v