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The HuMAN Lab is transitioning to full open-science practices. Starting in 2017, all studies on which HuMAN Lab members had primary responsibility feature open data and analysis scripts via the Open Science Foundation (OSF) and/or via supplements published along with the paper. For older publications, we will continue to add open science features via OSF and link them on our publications webpage. In addition, we have made key tasks and tools we use in our research available through OSF to provide open methods. These include:

  • The Pang & Schultheiss (2005) Picture Story Exercise, both as a paper & pencil measure and as an Inquisit script for computer administration (https://osf.io/6kfhz/; see also the PSE featured in Millisecond Software’s Inquisit task library)
  • Schultheiss and Pang’s (2007) set of standard PSE pictures (https://osf.io/6kbs3/)
  • Schultheiss et al’s (2009) Picture Story Exercise Questionnaire (PSE-Q; https://osf.io/ekwgh/)
  • Brunstein et al’s (1998) Personal Goals Questionnaire, with additional items introduced by Schultheiss et al (2008) (https://osf.io/zte8u/)
  • Schultheiss et al’s (1999) Number Tracking Test (https://osf.io/62gkc/)
  • Schultheiss’s (2001) translation of Heckhausen’s (1963) need Achievement coding system (https://osf.io/sk74e/)
  • Oxford et al’s (2017) competition-aggression paradigm (https://osf.io/9fg8a/)

More will be added to OSF as we publish new research and make methods from previously published studies available. See the other entries of this webpage for additional resources directly available through the HuMAN Lab website (including the PSECoder and MovieMotiveCoder). If anyone wants to exactly replicate or extend on studies conducted in our lab, we will gladly share complete sets of data collection modules and the batch files that we use to conduct entire data collection sessions. Unlike some other labs, we are not in the habit of losing or discarding our painstakingly programmed data collection tools or our precious raw data and analysis scripts because time has passed, someone had to transition between universities, or the dog ate the files. Study design, measurement processes, data, and data analysis are the core & heart & soul of what we are doing and the reason why we are in this line of work. No compromise.
The HuMAN Lab also has a vast archive of thousands of PSE stories collected in dozens of studies in Germany and the US. Older PSEs exist as handwritten stories; more recent ones are available as text files, because they were written on the computer. The HuMAN has already made some of these story sets available to others (e.g., https://osf.io/9fg8a/). We also include PSE stories whenever we can in the open science supplements of new publications and will gradually make story sets available for pre-2017 publications. In addition, we have started to make the original TAT stories of classic studies, such as McClelland et al’s (1949) nAchievement arousal experiment, available to researchers (https://osf.io/s2ka7/). More studies will follow. And thanks to David Winter for making these materials available.
Finally, the HuMAN Lab offers its expertise in content coding to other researchers who would like to have PSE stories scored by experienced coders. If you are interested in having English-language or German-language PSE or TAT stories coded for achievement, affiliation, power, and sex motive imagery, please contact Oliver C. Schultheiss. Our certified coders have extensive coding experience, having scored more than 1000 PSE stories for the HuMAN Lab, and have demonstrated excellent scoring agreement (> 85%) with expert scores on training and calibration materials.
We also offer workshops on the assessment of salivary steroids and on the assessment of implicit motives in verbal material to other interested labs and institutions. For further information, please contact Oliver C. Schultheiss.


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