Build a Psychology Experiment from Scratch

A step-by-step tutorial that teaches you to code by building your own digital psychology experiments.
Follow our example, then adapt the patterns for your own research questions.

🎯 How This Tutorial Works

This is a learn-by-doing tutorial where you'll build a complete psychology experiment from start to finish. We provide working examples at each step, then guide you to create your own version for your research interest.

End Goal: You'll have a fully functional experiment that you designed, can modify, and can use to collect real research data.

Step 0

Research & Planning

Choose your research inspiration and prepare to create your own digital experiment.

Step 1

Environment Setup

Install the necessary tools and create your accounts to get started with web development.

Step 2

Repository Setup

Create a home for your project on GitHub and structure your files for success.

Step 3

Build Your First Experiment

Create your own interactive experiment and deploy it locally for testing.

Step 4

Data Collection

Implement structured data logging to save participant responses from your experiment.

Step 5

Experimental Design

Create a configuration interface to easily adjust your experiment's parameters.

Step 6

Research Ready Experiment

Finalize your experiment's interactive elements, prepare it for deployment & start collecting data.

Step 7

Analysis & Visualization

Analyze your collected data and create interesting visualizations.