psychTestR: An R package for designing and conducting behavioural psychological experiments

Today’s psychologists can choose from many different software packages for developing and administering psychological experiments, with the most appropriate package typically varying from task to task. For simple experiments based on short questionnaires, straightforward tools such as Survey Monkey or Google Forms can be most appropriate. For experiments depending on specialist hardware and accurate response time measurement, one might instead adopt the Python package PsychoPy (Peirce et al., 2019). For experiments administered over the Internet, one could also consider the Javascript package jsPsych (De Leeuw, 2015). For experiments involving many online participants interacting in complex networks, the Dallinger framework will typically be preferable. Many more such tools exist, each specialised for a particular aspect of psychological research. psychTestR constitutes a new tool for developing and administering psychological experiments. It occupies a special niche within this software landscape, one that may be summarised in terms of the following features […]