jsPsych is a JavaScript framework for creating behavioral experiments that run in a web browser.

Plugin Description

The free-sort plugin displays one or more images on the screen that the participant can interact with by clicking or dragging with a mouse, or touching and dragging with a touchscreen device. When the trial starts, the images can be positioned either inside or outside of the sorting area. All images must be moved in the sorting area before the participant can click a button to end the trial. All moves and final positions of the images are recorded. This plugin could be useful when asking participants to position images based on similarity to one another, or to recall certain image spatial locations.

Examples

Several example experiments and plugin demonstrations are available in the /examples folder. After you've downloaded the latest release, double-click on an example HTML file to run it in your web browser, and open it with a programming-friendly text editor to see how it works.

Documentation

Documentation for this plugin is available here.

Getting help

For questions about using the library, please use the GitHub discussions forum. You can also browse through the history of Q&A on the forum to find related questions.

Contributing

We :heart: contributions! See the contributing to jsPsych documentation page for more information about how you can help.

Citation

If you use this library in academic work, the preferred citation is:

de Leeuw, J.R., Gilbert, R.A., & Luchterhandt, B. (2023). jsPsych: Enabling an open-source collaborative ecosystem of behavioral experiments. Journal of Open Source Software, 8(85), 5351, https://joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21105/joss.05351.

This paper is an updated description of jsPsych and includes all current core team members. It replaces the earlier paper that described jsPsych:

de Leeuw, J.R. (2015). jsPsych: A JavaScript library for creating behavioral experiments in a Web browser. Behavior Research Methods, 47(1), 1-12. doi:10.3758/s13428-014-0458-y

Citations help us demonstrate that this library is used and valued, which allows us to continue working on it.

Contributors

jsPsych is open source project with numerous contributors. The project is currently managed by the core team of Josh de Leeuw (@jodeleeuw), Becky Gilbert (@becky-gilbert), and Björn Luchterhandt (@bjoluc).

jsPsych was created by Josh de Leeuw.

We're also grateful for the generous support from a Mozilla Open Source Support award, which funded development of the library from 2020-2021.