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A Systematic Survey of Control Groups in Behavioral and Social Science Trials
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Wang, Mei; Sun, Guangwen; Chang, Yaping; Jin, Yanling; Leenus, Alvin; Maaz, Muhammad; Li, Guowei; Bhatt, Meha; Abbade, Luciana P. F.; Nwosu, Ikunna; Zielinski, Laura; Sanger, Nitika; Bantoto, Bianca; Luo, Candice; Shams, Ieta; Shahid, Hamnah; Adachi, Jonathan; Mbuagbaw, Lawrence; Levine, Mitchell; Samaan, Zainab; Thabane, Lehana – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Behavioral and social sciences randomized controlled trials (BSSTs) have a significant role in life sciences. Choosing an appropriate control or comparator group for BSSTs is critical, to provide true intervention effects. The objective of this study was to determine the types of control groups used in BSSTs, and the rationale provided to justify…
Descriptors: Randomized Controlled Trials, Databases, Behavioral Science Research, Social Science Research
Well-Being, Smartphone Sensors, and Data from Open-Access Databases: A Mobile Experience Sampling Study
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Stieger, Stefan; Reips, Ulf-Dietrich – Field Methods, 2019
We investigated fluctuations of well-being by using a smartphone-based mobile experience sampling method (real-time and multiple time point measurements in the field using smartphones). Moreover, temperature, longitude, latitude, altitude, wind speed, rainfall, and further environment-based indicators were included as predictors either from…
Descriptors: Well Being, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Predictor Variables
Test of the Behavioral Perspective Model in the Context of an E-Mail Marketing Experiment
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Sigurdsson, Valdimar; Menon, R. G. Vishnu; Sigurdarson, Johannes Pall; Kristjansson, Jon Skafti; Foxall, Gordon R. – Psychological Record, 2013
An e-mail marketing experiment based on the behavioral perspective model was conducted to investigate consumer choice. Conversion e-mails were sent to two groups from the same marketing database of registered consumers interested in children's books. The experiment was based on A-B-A-C-A and A-C-A-B-A withdrawal designs and consisted of sending B…
Descriptors: Marketing, Electronic Mail, Consumer Economics, Purchasing
Computer-Aided Searching of Bibliographic Data Bases: Online Estimation of the Value of Information.
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Morehead, David R.; Rouse, William B. – Information Processing and Management, 1985
Presents results of five experiments on human information-seeking behavior in different online information-seeking environments which studied search strategies and assessed information value in realistic search environments. A conceptual model of how humans value information is presented. Empirical and modeling results are considered for…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Databases, Design Requirements, Evaluative Thinking