TESS Announcements

Note to COVID-19 Researchers

TESS is accepting COVID-19 research proposals, but only as regular studies – not short studies. The typical length of time after acceptance and approval from the investigator's IRB until fielding is approximately four weeks.

 

Announcing the Winners of our 2019 Special Competition for Young Investigators: We would like to congratulate the winners of this year's competition:

Brittany Jakubiak (Syracuse University) for the project, "Do the Benefits of Receiving Affectionate Touch Generalize Beyond Satisfied Couples?"

Emma Cohen (Indiana University) for the project "Social Class, College Debt, and the Purpose of College"

Matthew Grace (Hamilton College) and Long Doan (University of Maryland) for the project "Factors Affecting Public Opinion on Transgender Medical Care Refusal"

Ilene Hollin (Temple University) for the project "Price Disclosure Laws for Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising: Price Transparency, Information Asymmetry and Consumer Behavior"

Andrea Headley (The Ohio State University), Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill (City University of New York), and Victor St. John (City University of New York) for the project "Affective Architecture: Isolating the Influence of Physical Environment on Perceptual and Behavioral Attitudes toward Police"

Christopher Blair (University of Pennsylvania) and Joshua Schwartz (University of Pennsylvania) for the project "Do Women Make More Credible Threats? Gender Stereotypes and Crisis Bargaining"

Matthew Graham (Yale University) for the project "A Conditional Commitment? Partisan Identity and Support for Democracy in the United States"

We look forward to seeing what these scholars produce! (9/2019)

 

TESS is pleased to announce the winning proposals of our Special Competition for Young Investigators: Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all who submitted proposals! The winning proposals and authors are listed below (6/2017):

"Are Religions Gender-Typed? The Perceived Femininity and Masculinity of Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Atheists"
Landon Schnabel, Indiana University Bloomington

"Race, Religion, and American Support for Humanitarian Intervention"
Jonathan Chu, Stanford University

"How Social Class and the Framing of Income Inequality affect Solidarity Within & Across Groups"
Pia Dietze, New York University

We look forward to seeing what these scholars produce!

 

NSF Funding Renewed: We are pleased to announce that Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) was renewed for another round of funding by National Science Foundation. TESS allows researchers to submit proposals for experiments to be conducted on a nationally-representative, probability-based Internet platform, and successful proposals are fielded at no cost to investigators. The studies will be fielded by NORC at the University of Chicago, using their AmeriSpeak® Panel.

Additionally, we are pleased to announce the continuation of TESS’s Short Studies Program (SSP). This program accepts proposals for fielding very brief population-based survey experiments on a general population of at least 2000 adults. SSP recruits participants from within the U.S. using the same Internet-based platform as other TESS studies. More information about SSP and proposal requirements is available here. We are being assisted by a team of over 60 Associate PIs and peer reviewers across the social sciences. More information about our APIs is available here. (9/2016)

 

TESS is pleased to announce the winning proposals of our Special Competition for Young Investigators: In total, we received roughly 75 proposals and a total of 6 were accepted. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all who submitted proposals! The winning proposals and authors are listed below (6/2016):

"Racial Majority and Minority Group Members' Psychological and Political Reactions to Minority Population Growth"
Maureen Craig, Ohio State University

"Gun Control, Attitude Change, and Bayesian Updating"
Alexander Coppock and Andrew Guess, Columbia University

"Public Perceptions of Money in Families"
Joanna Pepin, University of Maryland

"The Electoral Consequences of Elite-induced Opinion Change"
Erik Peterson and Gabor Simonovits, Stanford University

"How Does Economic Status Affect Social Preferences? Experimental Evidence"
Christopher Roth and Alexis Grigorieff, University of Oxford

"How Conflict Orientation Influences Emotional and Political Responses to Incivility"
Emily Sydnor, Southwestern University

 

TESS is pleased to announce the winning proposals of our Special Competition for Real Stakes Experiments: TESS had a special competition for proposals of experiments that offer monetary rewards to participants. Congratulations to the winners of the competition and thank you to all who participated and submitted proposals! The winning proposals and authors are listed below (1/2015):

"Black-White Relations in the Wake of Hispanic Growth: Generosity and Identification"
Maria Abascal

"Economic Spillovers of Political Polarization"
Neil Malhotra, Matthew Levendusky, & Yotam Margalit

"Helping the Homeless: Empathy, Race, and Perceptions of Homelessness in America"
Kimberly Gross, Julie Wronski, & Robert Entman

"Misperceptions of the Global Income Distribution and Preferences for Cross-National Redistribution in the United States"
Gautam Nair

 

Policy change: TESS will begin posting accepted proposals for fielded projects online when it posts the raw data. Click here for details. (7/2014)

 

TESS is pleased to announce the winning proposals of our Special Competition for Young Investigators: In total, we received over 100 proposals and a total of 8 were accepted. The winning proposals and authors are listed below (1/2014):

“Effects of Deliberative Minipublics on Public Opinion: Experimental Evidence from a Survey on Social Security Reform”- Sean Ingham and Ines Levin

“Impact of Response Scale Direction on Survey Responses to Factual/Behavioral Questions”- Florian Keusch

“Extreme Policy Proposals and Public Opinion”- Erik Peterson

“A Piece of the Pie: Achievement, Children’s Sex, and Parent Resource Distribution”- Natasha Yurk

“Body Size, Illness, and Blame: Causal Attributions and Social Consequences”- Karen Powroznik

“The Victim Paradox: How Portrayals of Suffering Affect Attitudes about Gay People and Gay Rights”- Seth Goldman

“Work and Democratic Citizenship: A Theory of Ego Depletion and Political Participation”- Benjamin Newman and Christopher Johnston

“Prosocial Motivation, Social Position, and Support for Social Welfare Policy”- Amber Wichowsky and Meghan Condon

New APIs (4/2013): TESS is pleased to announce a new team of associate principal investigators, which includes a diverse array of over 65 individuals spanning across the social sciences. Click here to see TESS's team of APIs.

 

Call for proposals (12/2012): TESS's Short Studies Program (SSP), a new mechanism for fielding brief population-based survey experiments, is now accepting proposals. Click here for more information.

 

New Co-PI (10/2012): James Druckman (Northwestern University) is now co-principal investigator of TESS.

 

Revised limits (12/2011): Limits on the maximum length of TESS experiments have been slightly revised. See here.

 

New book about population experiments (8/2011): TESS founder Diana Mutz has published Population-Based Survey Experiments with Princeton University Press. The book uses many examples from past TESS studies.

 

New proposal-handling system (2/2010): TESS is now using the ScholarOne Manuscripts system to handle new proposals.

 

Searchable archives (8/2009): Summaries of previous studies are now provided in a searchable format.

 

Expanded limits (5/2009): TESS can now field larger experiments! See our new page on the maximum size of TESS experiments.

 

New website (3/2009): Along with the new look, we have updated many policies. Check our FAQ if you are planning to propose a TESS project.

 

New principal investigators (1/2009): Jeremy Freese and Penny Visser have succeeded originators Arthur Lupia and Diana Mutz as the co-PIs of TESS.