I've been asked to encourage people to take part in an online psychology study called The Small World of Words
I get a lot of this, and I usually don't respond to such requests, but this one looks pretty interesting.
The project aims to collect the world's biggest word association database. You see a series of words and you just have to type in the first three words that pop into your head.
Here's some more about it:
It's the sheer scale of this that makes it cool. They've got some 60,000 participants, and over a million associations already, but they're aiming for almost 300,000 people - which would make it not just the biggest word association study ever, but the biggest psychology study of all time, as far as I know.
On average, an adult knows about 40,000 words. Researchers in psychology and linguistics are interested in how these ...
