TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lutz, Johannes
T1  - The Validity of Crowdsourcing Data in Studying Anger and Aggressive Behavior A Comparison of Online and Laboratory Data
JF  - Social psychology
N2  - Crowdsourcing platforms provide an affordable approach for recruiting large and diverse samples in a short time. Past research has shown that researchers can obtain reliable data from these sources, at least in domains of research that are not affectively involving. The goal of the present study was to test if crowdsourcing platforms can also be used to conduct experiments that incorporate the induction of aversive affective states. First, a laboratory experiment with German university students was conducted in which a frustrating task induced anger and aggressive behavior. This experiment was then replicated online using five crowdsourcing samples. The results suggest that participants in the online samples reacted very similarly to the anger manipulation as participants in the laboratory experiments. However, effect sizes were smaller in crowdsourcing samples with non-German participants while a crowdsourcing sample with exclusively German participants yielded virtually the same effect size as in the laboratory.
KW  - crowdsourcing
KW  - online research
KW  - anger
KW  - aggression
KW  - frustration
KW  - mechanical turk
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1027/1864-9335/a000256
SN  - 1864-9335
SN  - 2151-2590
VL  - 47
SP  - 38
EP  - 51
PB  - Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -