Lab-like Findings of Non-Lab Experiments

Dear colleagues,

Like commerce and administrative work, based on physical interaction, academic work also had to be paused or was at least troubled with serious difficulties cause by social distancing. Whereas in game playing, physical interaction of players can be usually circumvented, experimental game playing was fully hit by the recent pandemic. Although there has been a rise in internet experiments, their data are inferior in various aspects of experimental control. Of course, better controlled lab studios can locate participants in visually separated cubicles. However, the lab environment is far from virus-proof. Because of this, essentially all data collection via lab experiment had to be stopped.

The Special Issue is devoted to presenting and discussing creative ideas how to collect lab-like data outside the lab without too much loss of control and with the same qualitative findings as in earlier (lab) research. Are there chances to continue research via web-lab experiments but lab-like findings? If not, this would guarantee a smooth continuation of experimental research, based on the lab-like data to whose high standards we have become so used. If, on the contrary, certain ways of internet-data elicitation yield very different results, such findings should be received cautiously, and rather than questioning earlier lab-findings, one may doubt the quality of the data. 

Prof. Dr. Daniela Di Cagno
Guest Editor

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