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@psychopy.org
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Free software for creating experiments for psychology, neuroscience, economics and more. psychopy.org Supported by opensciencetools.org and The University of Nottingham. Host your study online using Pavlovia.org.

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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 19/06/2026
Have you visited psychopy.org and seen we have a PRICING tab 😱 AHHH Don't worry folks... PsychoPy is and always will be free 😉 We just have a bunch of ways you can get extra support and training for your department. psychopy.org/pricing.html
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 11/06/2026
Thank you to @rondalo.bsky.social for introducing Pavlovia Surveys to @canadianpsychology.bsky.social at #CPA2026 ! Are you searching for a low-cost flexible online survey tool? Check out Rondas slides and materials here! 👇 osf.io/rs6mg/overview
A screen show of an opening slide that reads "Pavlovia Surveys: A low-cost and flexible online survey tool. Dr Ronda Lo Toronto Metropolotan University"
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 27/04/2026
A huge Thanks to all who attended our Virtual PsychoPy workshops these last 2 weeks🙏 Our first time testing a new format (4 half days) and it was amazing to connect with so many researchers from all over the world. So glad to see that you enjoyed it too! workshops.psychopy.org#what-attende...
A screenshot of attendee testimonials. All can be accessed and viewed in post link.
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 23/02/2026
📣 PsychoPy Studio is out now!! ✨ Which also means swish new branding on psychopy.org ✨ We really hope that this improves user experience in general. Please download and try it. Let us know how you get on via the forum discourse.psychopy.org/t/introducin...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 09/02/2026
👩‍💻 We're commemorating Women's Month with @wicseurope.bsky.social 🧠 As part of their Building Inclusive Computational Skills initiative, you can sign up to PsychoPy training every Wednesday in March. Find out more 👉️ workshops.psychopy.org#women-in-cog... #DiversityInSTEM #WomenInSTEM #PsychoPy
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 30/10/2025
Looking for PsychoPy training? or help getting an experiment ready? Did you know you can hire us to run custom training or create tasks for you? Find out more here workshops.psychopy.org 🙏 Thank you to those who have shared testimonials of our workshops!
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 22/10/2025
🚀 New PsychoPy beta 2025.2.1 is out! Includes several bug fixes — full changelog here: github.com/psychopy/psy... Please report any issues on the forum. Thanks for helping us keep improving PsychoPy! 🙏
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 02/10/2025
🙏 Thank you for your testimonials! It is great to hear PsychoPy being used in both research and teaching around the world 🌎 You can share your testimonial here www.psychopy.org/about/testim...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 01/10/2025
Join us for a 2 day bootcamp! 📅 Dec 16th/17th 📍 Nottingham 👩‍💻 Day 1 - Create experiments in PsychoPy and optimise for EEG 🧠 Day 2 - EEG data collection and ERP analysis strategies ℹ️ Info and Ticket purchase shorturl.at/DVL8s In collaboration with @ant-neuro.com
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 22/09/2025
🤔 Preparing Undergraduate students for their final year projects? 💡 Why not start with the range of template experiments at Pavlovia.org? pavlovia.org/explore/demo... You can download the experiment files directly and adapt for your own experiment! #openscience #teaching #psychology
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 18/09/2025
Happy faces in this PsychoPy workshop at Mapua University in Manila run by @suelynnmah.bsky.social! 🇵🇭 Sue Lynn introduced students and faculty to PsychoPy for creating psychology experiments. We love seeing PsychoPy being used around the world! 🌏 #psychology #research
A woman stands at the front of a computer room full of students, she presents a slide that reads “introducing PsychoPy!” A student works on a computer in a workshop, the screen displays an experiment being created in PsychoPy.A group of happy smiling students look at the camera posing after their PsychoPy workshop.
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 17/09/2025
✨ PsychoPy Tip ✨ Searching for a specific variable in your Builder experiment? Did you know you can use "Find in Experiment" to quickly search for all places in your experiment a variable is used?
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 15/09/2025
For researchers running surveys in Right-to-Left (RTL) languages: this is now available as a beta feature in Pavlovia Surveys. 1️⃣ Create your survey in Pavlovia Surveys 2️⃣ In the survey URL, change the version to "2025.5" This feature will appear on the dashboard soon.
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 04/09/2025
Another neat demo from the #ESCOP2025 booth ✍️ Writing distraction task. Show a word to type Interrupt typing with distraction ⭐ Ask to continue typing... run.pavlovia.org/demos/writin...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/09/2025
Webcam facial expression detection with Face API Show pictures of food➡️ use the webcam to track facial expressions 🤤 Demo 🌐 :https://run.pavlovia.org/demos/food_face_api/
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/09/2025
Use typed responses later in a task... This one asks opinions on climate change 👁️‍🗨️ then presents information ➡️ then asks participants to rate their own past responses Demo: run.pavlovia.org/demos/climat... Code: gitlab.pavlovia.org/demos/climat...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/09/2025
☎️ Phone a friend Show participant questions 👉 They get 10 chances to ask for a hint 👉 sometimes hints are misleading and sometimes correct 🌐 Demo: run.pavlovia.org/demos/phone_... 👩‍💻 Code: gitlab.pavlovia.org/demos/phone_...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/09/2025
1️⃣ Ask participants to rate images 2️⃣ Later select images from each level of rating in a choice task (e.g. pic rated 1 vs. pic rated 3) A great example of a flexible task adapting to the participants choice. 🌐 demo: run.pavlovia.org/demos/rating... 👩‍💻 code: gitlab.pavlovia.org/demos/rating...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/09/2025
Day 1 at #ESCOP2025 ! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and inspired new experiment demos! Here are just a few of the awesome experiments inspired by ESCOP PsychoPy users 👇 🧵
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/09/2025
☎️ Phone a friend Show participant questions 👉 They get 10 chances to ask for a hint 👉 sometimes hints are misleading and sometimes correct 🌐 Demo: run.pavlovia.org/demos/phone_... 👩‍💻 Code: gitlab.pavlovia.org/demos/phone_...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/09/2025
1️⃣ Ask participants to rate images 2️⃣ Later select images from each level of rating in a choice task (e.g. pic rated 1 vs. pic rated 3) A great example of a flexible task adapting to the participants choice. 🌐 demo: run.pavlovia.org/demos/rating... 👩‍💻 code: gitlab.pavlovia.org/demos/rating...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/09/2025
Day 1 at #ESCOP2025 ! Thanks to everyone who stopped by our booth and inspired new experiment demos! Here are just a few of the awesome experiments inspired by ESCOP PsychoPy users 👇 🧵
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 31/08/2025
Excited to feature alongside some excellent pre-conference workshops tomorrow for #ESCOP2025! We will have a 2 day workshop to equip researchers with skills in creating flexible experiments to run in lab and online with PsychoPy and Pavlovia, focusing on #opensource software for #openscience 🔓 🌐
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 28/08/2025
Friends don't let friends sit through 1000 trials to test the task works*.... Did you know you can simulate responses in PsychoPy? Install the PsychoPy "Monkeys" plugin and have a play! *Actually this is exactly what friends do 😅 - looking at you psychophysics people...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 27/08/2025
Could we be more perfectly positioned at #ESCOP2025 next week 😆 Right between the catering stands ☕ 🤤 Grab your refreshments and come chat about how we are sustaining open source tools like PsychoPy with our social enterprise Open Science Tools #openscience
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 26/08/2025
Excited to be at #ESCOP2025, in Sheffield next week! 🎉 Looking forward to connecting with new and existing PsychoPy & Pavlovia users. We kick off with our fully booked pre-conference workshop Monday/Tuesday - for those keen to get started before the conference even begins! #Psychology #Cognitive
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 21/08/2025
A peak at our workshop from yesterday! Screenshots don't do the dynamic coolness of this IAT justice... The heart in this task changes size based on the pulse measured from a pulse sensor. Anyone using dynamic stimuli in response to physiological measures in their experiments? Share with us!
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 20/08/2025
Today we are creating an IAT task with the University of Delaware! We’re also helping this team to combine OpenBCI, Lab Streaming Layer, and PsychoPy to make the most out of #OpenSource tools for #research! Did you know we offer custom training for departments? Get in touch if we can help!
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 08/08/2025
Interested in starting EEG Research? Join Our Hands-On Workshop This December! ✍️ Before we finalise plans, we’d love to hear from you. Please fill out our short Expression of Interest form — even if you can't attend, your feedback will help shape future events. run.pavlovia.org/pavlovia/sur...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/07/2025
📋 Pavlovia Surveys tip✅ For slider responses, you can use "single line input" and set the "input type" to "Range".
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 19/05/2025
Are you at #APS this week in Washington?! We are too! Come see us at booth 204! We will be right here 👇 #APS2025 #Psychology #Conference
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 23/04/2025
People often ask how to take in-lab experiments online. With PsychoPy, you can sync your experiments to Pavlovia and run them online. It's also simple to connect with any recruitment platform that accepts a URL. #Research #PsychoPy #OnlineExperiments #Psychology
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 16/04/2025
"Give us an eye-catching pic to draw researchers to our antisaccade task demo" 🙈 Ahead of a workshop next week (stay tuned), we’ve got a new demo to share... Try it 👉 run.pavlovia.org/demos/antisa... Check the readme for tips on adapting to your eyetracker 👀 gitlab.pavlovia.org/demos/antisa...
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 06/03/2025
📣 Workshop Alert 📣 Learn how to integrate PsychoPy experiments with Tobii Eye trackers and Brain Products EEG in our one day specialist workshop. If you're new to PsychoPy you can also join us for a comprehensive 3 day workshop. More info here buff.ly/tVKhUS2
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 12/02/2025
✨ Pavlovia tips ✨ You can add specific team members to your #Pavlovia projects. For easy sharing and collaboration with lab members. You can later set project visibility to "public" when you are ready to share your materials openly! #openscience buff.ly/4avVaDH
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 10/02/2025
New webcam based eye tracking demos!👀 You can use js packages in your Pavlovia experiment, including webgazer.js You can also update stimuli frame-by-frame based on gaze 🧐 This demo measures dwell times on faces.. Try it: buff.ly/42xspnQ View the code: buff.ly/4g9LlMW
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 05/02/2025
In prep for SPSP we're uploading more Social Psychology demos! The Cyberball task is a measure of social inclusion/exclusion. Try it: buff.ly/4ge6fKU See the experiment files: buff.ly/4jzvZEm #socialpsychology #cyberball #spsp2025
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/02/2025
Can you run Pavlovia experiments on mobile phones? YES Just use mouse/buttons as your response! An example demo from #linguistics - semantic priming Try it ✨ buff.ly/40AtzO0 Adapt the files 🖥️ buff.ly/42agP20 #language #psychology #researchtools
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 30/01/2025
✨ PsychoPy tips ✨ Want to use a component only on specific trial types? Remember you can use Start > Condition and apply the condition In this example "ball_to" is the column in the spreadsheet and I want to use a mouse response only on "choose" trials. #psychology #software #researchmethods
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 28/01/2025
Another week, another demo. This time a classic Simon Task... but ... butterflies 🦋 Try it: buff.ly/3PsQaWv Use the code: buff.ly/3Pr2TsZ #psychology #cognitive #experiment #psychopy
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 21/01/2025
✨ Open Access data bases of stimuli for experiments are the best ✨ FACES is an open access database of .... well... faces! buff.ly/3Pjtnwf We used these stimuli to create some of our demos. What are your favourite #OpenSource stimuli data bases? #Psychology #SocialPsych #Research
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 20/01/2025
🎥 Did you know that you can present YouTube videos in your Pavlovia Survey?🎥 Use an "Image" question type and use "YouTube" content mode. OR Use "html" question type and provide the html for an iframe. Take a look at the demo here buff.ly/3WrSSj4
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 16/01/2025
Studying Decision Making ? Thinking about using PsychoPy? 💰 ➡️ 💰 💰 Delay discounting (with fixed delay) is a simple demo to get started (adaptive methods are possible). Try it buff.ly/3VZwgWQ 🔓Open materials buff.ly/41WbdIw #psychology #decisionmaking #research #economics
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 15/01/2025
We worked with researchers at the University of Bath to add face detection into PsychoJS... Read the paper!👇 Trace: A research media player measuring real-time audience engagement and watch out for the next release where these features will be even easier to use! 👀 buff.ly/4heV5GC
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 09/01/2025
We're fishing for likes with this gamified multi-armed bandit demo.... An example of the fun things you can do by making stimuli track the mouse! 🎣 #decisionmaking #psychology #behavior # research #psychopy Try it buff.ly/3C58v93 Use and adapt the experiment buff.ly/4h4mLOf
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 06/01/2025
Someone reached out to ask if we had a demo of a dot-probe task on Pavlovia.... We didn't .... 🙈 but we do now!!✨ Try it buff.ly/3VZxQbe Use the Open Materials for your research! buff.ly/423mNln #OpenScience #PsychoPy #Pavlovia #Psychology
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 06/01/2025
We're sponsoring SPSP - which means we will be joining you in Denver next month! What an exciting start to the year 😄 What social psychology tasks shall we demo? #socialpsych #psychology @spspnews.bsky.social
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 03/01/2025
What do you add to your readme ? 📋 readme.md files are helpful, they: 1️⃣create a pop up window for other researchers opening your task in PsychoPy. 2️⃣populate documentation on your Pavlovia gitlab project. 3️⃣can remind you of helpful info e.g. data output
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 02/01/2025
New Year New Experiment Demos ✨ Starting with an Ultimatum Game! Try it here: buff.ly/3W1cKJD Open Access Experiment Files here: buff.ly/3PqS35X #BehavioralEconomics #Economics #SocialPsych #Psychology #Experiment
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PsychoPy @psychopy.org · 18/12/2024
Using Pavlovia with your PsychoPy experiment is a good way to get started with concepts of #git and version control. When you sync your project, don't forget to leave a useful "Summary of changes" - then you can see your full version history on Pavlovia via View Code > Repository > Commits.
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