TESS Announcements Archive

July, 2024

Announcing the Winners of the 2024 Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award

TESS is delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 Lupia-Mutz Award for Outstanding Publication Using TESS Data! The winners are:

Alexander Wenz and Florian Keusch, for “Increasing the Acceptance of Smartphone-Based Data Collection” (Public Opinion Quarterly)

Tanika Raychaudhuri, Tali Mendelberg, and Anne McDonough, for “The Political Effects of Opioid Addiction Frames” (Journal of Politics)

Liberty Barnes, Sasha Johfre, and Christian L. Munsch, for “Galvanizing the “Missing Revolution”: Processes and Meanings of the Child/Adult Binary in the Social Construction of Age” (American Journal of Sociology)

May, 2024

2024 Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award

TESS invites nominations for the Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award.

The award, named for TESS’s founding principal investigators, recognizes the “best” publication that uses TESS data that is published (in print or on-line/early view) in 2022, 2023, or the first half of 2024. The publication can use either primary or secondary TESS data, and it can either use TESS data exclusively or along with other data.

To be considered, send the publication to jdruckma@ur.rochester.edu by July 1, 2024. Self-nominations are encouraged, as are publications from all fields and career stages of TESS users. Previously nominated publications also are welcome. (There is no need for a nomination letter; just submitting the publication suffices.)

A committee consisting of the TESS principal investigators and Associate principal investigators will choose the winner(s) by August 1, 2024. In addition to our accolades, the award comes with $500 (split between winners if multiple winners are chosen).

April, 2024

Announcing the Winners of the Special Competition on Replications

TESS is delighted to announce the winners of the Special Competition on Replications! The winners are:

Christin Munsch and Tessa Holtzman, “TESS Special Competition on Replications: Flexible Work, Flexible Penalties Revisited”

Andrew Trexler, Trent Ollerenshaw, and Diana Jordan, “Repeated Measure Designs in Survey Experiments: A Replication Study”

Claire Gothreau and Nicholas Haas, “A Direct Replication and Extension of Willer et al. (2013) Overdoing Gender: A Test of the Masculine Overcompensation Thesis”

Marta Elliott and James Ragsdale, “Replication of Causal Attributions, Treatability, and Mental Illness Stigma: An Experimental Study”

Andrew Luttrell and Jacob Teeny, “A Direct Replication of Moral Reframing and Extension via Message Sampling”

Jason Barabas and Jennifer Jerit, “Replicating “Are Survey Experiments Externally Valid?””

April, 2024

Closing Soon: 2024 Competition for Early-Career Investigators

Proposals for the Special Competition for Young Investigators are due April 30, 2024.

Please find more information by clicking here.

February, 2024

2024 Competition for Early-Career Investigators

TESS is once again holding a Special Competition for Young Investigators. We will begin accepting applications on March 15, 2024 and the deadline is April 30, 2024.

Please find more information by clicking here.

August, 2023

TESS Partnership with JEPS

TESS is excited to announce a partnership with the Journal of Experimental Political Science (JEPS) to share reviews for applicants who submit their proposed TESS projects to JEPS as a pre-registered reports. Please visit the FAQ page for more information.

August, 2023

Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award

TESS is delighted to announce the winners of the 2023 Lupia-Mutz Award for Outstanding Publication Using TESS Data! The winners are:

Justin de Benedictis-Kessner and Michael Hankinson, for “How the Identity of Substance Users Shapes Public Opinion on Opioid Policy” (Political Behavior)

Sparsha Saha, for “Why don't politicians talk about meat? The political psychology of human-animal relations in elections” (Frontiers in Psychology)

Scott Clifford and Elizabeth N. Simas, for “Moral Rhetoric, Extreme Positions, and Perceptions of Candidate Sincerity” (Political Behavior)

, 2023

Announcing the Winners of the 2023 Young Investigator Competition

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Young Investigator Competition!

Nicole Yadon (The Ohio State University), ”“The Caucasian Persuasion”: Theorizing Group Position as Influencing Whites’ Attitudes towards Skin Tone Variation among Black Political Candidates"

Hajin Kim (University of Chicago), "Does Allowing Firms to Pay to Pollute Reduce the Moral Stigma of Pollution?"

Jill Laufer (University of California, Davis), "Youth Peer-to-Peer Signaling Experiment: Testing the Effect of Exposure to Youth vs. Non-Youth Driven Advocacy Messaging on Political Participation"

Flavien Ganter (Columbia University), "Perceived Social Distance and Everyday Classifications in the United States"

Cristina Salvador and Mercedes Muñoz (Duke University), "Varieties of Interdependence in the United States: A Comparison of Latinx, East Asian, African and European Americans"

Jennifer Bowers (National Cancer Institute), "Self-Affirmation Intervention for Weight Bias Internalization"

Sandra Geiger (University of Vienna) and Jeffrey Lees (Princeton University), "Misperceiving the Conservation Consensus: An Intervention to Boost Support for the Convention on Biological Diversity Among the US Public"

Katherine Clayton (Stanford University), "Interventions to Help Citizens Identify Stealthy Democratic Backsliding"

Eric Shuman (New York University), "Understanding White Identity Management in a Changing America"

Jae Yeon Chang (Carnegie Mellon University), "Evidence on Closing Gender Gaps in Self-Promotion"

, 2023

TESS Special Competition on Replications

TESS is excited to announce a Special Opportunity for researchers to propose survey experiments that replicate (and potentially extend) prior published work.


Please click here for more information.


The deadline to apply is September 15, 2023.

June, 2023

2023 Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award

TESS invites nominations for the Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award.

The award, named for TESS’s founding principal investigators, recognizes the “best” publication that uses TESS data that is published (in print or on-line/early view) in 2021, 2022, or the first half of 2023. The publication can use either primary or secondary TESS data, and it can either use TESS data exclusively or along with other data.

To be considered, send the publication to druckman@northwestern.edu by July 1, 2023. Self-nominations are encouraged, as are publications from all fields and career stages of TESS users. Previously nominated publications also are welcome. (There is no need for a nomination letter; just submitting the publication suffices.)

A committee consisting of the TESS principal investigators and Associate principal investigators will choose the winner(s) by August 1, 2023. In addition to our accolades, the award comes with $500 (split between winners if multiple winners are chosen).

November, 2022

New Competition for Early-Career Investigators

TESS is once again holding a Special Competition for Young Investigators. We will begin accepting applications on November 30, 2022 and the deadline is January 31, 2023.

Please find more information by clicking here.

September, 2022

Announcing the Winners of the Special Competition Using Targeted Samples

Congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Special Competition Using Targeted Samples!

Julie Kmec, "Racialized Organizations and the Reproduction of Inequality: Assessing Support for Whiteness as a Credential and the Preservation of Racial Ignorance"

Claire Willeck & Tali Mendelberg, "Active Civics and Engagement"

Melissa Vega, Eric Knowles, & Jaime Napier, "The Future of Latinos’ Policy Attitudes Amid the Rising Diversity in the United States"

Aliya Saperstein, "Optimizing Surveys: Studying Gender and Health Among LGBT Americans"

Jacob Rode & Josh Greene, "The Tesla effect: Increasing Republican support for electric vehicle adoption through engagement with a value-aligned product"

William Schulz, "Platform Effects: Estimating Online vs. Offline Polarization & Self-Censorship in Political Speech"

August, 2022

Announcing the Co-Winners of the 2022 Lupia-Mutz Award

TESS is delighted to announce the co-winners of the 2022 Lupia-Mutz Award for Outstanding Publication Using TESS Data! The winners are:

Andrea M. Headley, Kwan-Lamar Blount-Hill, and Victor J. St. John, for “The psychology of justice buildings: A survey experiment on police architecture, public sentiment, and race” (Journal of Criminal Justice)

Long Doan and Matthew K. Grace, for “Factors Affecting Public Opinion on the Denial of Healthcare to Transgender Persons” (American Sociological Review)

December, 2021

TESS Special Competition Using Targeted Samples

Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) is an NSF-funded initiative. Investigators propose survey experiments to be fielded using a nationally representative US adults sample via NORC at the University of Chicago's probability-based AmeriSpeak® Panel.


Most TESS studies involve general population samples. We are excited to announce here a Special Opportunity for researchers to propose survey experiments to be conducted on targeted populations of adults – that is, subgroups of the US population that include only people who share specific characteristics.


Please click here for more information.

October, 2021

Upcoming Special Competition

The next TESS special competition will be announced by December 15, 2021. It will be open to researchers at all career stages. Please check back soon for more details!

September, 2021

Updates to TESS Study Size Limits

TESS has updated the sample size limits corresponding to any given survey length. To see specific sample sizes for various lengths, as well as details on how to calculate survey length, please see the TESS Size Limits page.

August, 2021

Changes to Short Study Limits

TESS's Short Studies Program (SSP) will now accept proposals of up to 6 items and up to 1,600 respondents. These changes will enable TESS to support shorter social science experiments more efficiently.

We are looking forward to more exciting research conducted with this program!

August, 2021

Announcing the Winners of the 2021 Young Investigator Competition

Congratulations to the winners of the 2021 Young Investigator Competition!

Adam Ozer, "Blame and Bias in Trust in Public Policy Algorithms"

Ethan Busby, "Judgments of Extremism and Social Information"

Natasha Quadlin, "Which College Graduates are Perceived as Trainable for Today’s Work World? Perceptions of Race, Gender, Achievement, and the Liberal Arts"

Alexander Wenz, "How to increase the acceptance of mobile app and sensor data collection?"

Rebecca Johnson, Simone Zhang, and Leah Gillon, "Optimizing Schools? Public Perceptions of Algorithmic versus Status Quo Prioritization in K-12 Schooling"

Daniel Relihan, "Politics and purity: The effect of elite partisan cues on pathogen perceptions"

Rebecca Bucci, "Accounting for the Correlation between Perceived Risks and Rewards to Crime"

Gautam Nair and Kyle Peyton, "Vaccine Nationalism and Redistributive Preferences"

Jacob Conway and Levi Boxell, "Consuming Values: Estimating Consumer Demand for Corporate Social Responsibility"

Seth Behrends, "Do White Americans’ Beliefs about Racial Inequality depend on the Sex of the Target Group? Evidence from a Survey Based Experiment"

August, 2021

Mutz-Lupia Award Winners

TESS is delighted to announce the winners of the Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award, recognizing exceptional papers using TESS data published in 2019, 2020, or the first half of 2021:

WINNERS

Natasha Quadlin, “Sibling Achievement, Sibling Gender, and Beliefs about Parental Investment: Evidence from a National Survey Experiment.” Social Forces.

Kimberly Gross and Julie Wronski, “Helping the Homeless: The Role of Empathy, Race and Deservingness in Motivating Policy Support and Charitable Giving.” Political Behavior.

HONORABLE MENTIONS

Ingar Haaland and Christopher Roth, “Beliefs About Racial Discrimination and Support for Pro-Black Policies.” Review of Economics and Statistics.

Timothy J. Ryan and Amanda Aziz, “Is The Political Right More Credulous?: Experimental Evidence Against Asymmetric Motivations to Believe False Political Information.” The Journal of Politics.

July, 2021

New Co-PI

With our new grant, TESS has added another co-Principal Investigator to our team: Maureen Craig (New York University). We are thrilled that Maureen is joining us!

July, 2021

NSF Funding Renewed

We are delighted to announce that Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) has been renewed for another round of funding by the National Science Foundation (grant SES-2017581). Studies will continue to be fielded by NORC at the University of Chicago, using their AmeriSpeak® Panel.

April, 2021

Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award

Time-sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS) is celebrating its 20th anniversary! As part of our celebration, we are launching an annual best paper award.

The Lupia-Mutz Outstanding Publication Award is named for TESS’s founding principal investigators. The award recognizes the “best” paper that uses TESS data that is published (in print or on-line) in 2019, 2020, or the first half of 2021. The paper can use either primary or secondary TESS data, and it can either use TESS data exclusively or along with other data.

To be considered, send the paper to druckman@northwestern.edu by June 1, 2021. Self-nominations are welcome, as are papers from all fields and career stages of TESS users.

A committee consisting of the TESS principal investigators and Associate principal investigators will choose the winner by July 15, 2021. In addition to our accolades, the award comes with $500.

November, 2020

Competition for Early-Career Investigators

TESS is again holding a Special Competition for Young Investigators. More information is available here. The deadline is January 15, 2021.

September, 2020

NSF Funding Renewed

TESS has received renewed support from NSF, meaning that we will be accepting proposals for new studies through at least 2023. (As you may notice if you've visited our site before, one of the ways we have celebrated our renewal is by re-doing our website!)

June, 2020

Announcing the Winners of the First TESS Teen Study

Congratulations to the winners of the 2020 TESS Teen Study!

James Chu, "Educational Rankings and Adolescent Perceptions of College Cost"

Emily Vraga and Stephanie Edgerly, "New generation, new notion of news? Measuring news-ness based on relevance, topic, and context among teens"

Cameron Hecht and David Yeager, "When and How Teachers Communicate Growth Mindset Affordances to Adolescents"

David Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht, "The Effects of Exposure to Women Candidates on Adolescents’ Political Attitudes"

Kevin Arceneaux, Johanna Dunway, David Nickerson, and Jamie Settle, "Political Cue Taking on Social Media Among Teens"

Sara Morell, Lauren Hahn, and Mara Ostfeld, "All in the Family: The Effects of Familial Attitudes on Women’s Support for Pro-Women Policies"

We are looking forward to the exciting research conducted with these teen samples.

May, 2020

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.

September, 2019

Announcing the Winners of our 2019 Special Competition for Young Investigators

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!

June, 2017

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.:

"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

September, 2016

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.

June, 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:

"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

January, 2015

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:

"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

July, 2014

Policy change

TESS will begin posting accepted proposals for fielded projects online when it posts the raw data.

January, 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:

“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

April, 2013

New APIs

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.

December, 2012

Call for proposals

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.

October, 2012

New Co-PI

James Druckman (Northwestern University) is now co-principal investigator of TESS.

December, 2011

Revised limits

Limits on the maximum length of TESS experiments have been slightly revised. See here.

August, 2011

New book about population experiments

TESS founder Diana Mutz has published Population-Based Survey Experiments with Princeton University Press. The book uses many examples from past TESS studies.

February, 2010

New proposal-handling system

TESS is now using the ScholarOne Manuscripts system to handle new proposals.

August, 2009

Searchable archives

Summaries of previous studies are now provided in a searchable format.

May, 2009

Expanded limits

TESS can now field larger experiments! See our new page on the maximum size of TESS experiments.

March, 2009

New website

Along with the new look, we have updated many policies. Check our FAQ if you are planning to propose a TESS project.

January, 2009

New principal investigators

Jeremy Freese and Penny Visser have succeeded originators Arthur Lupia and Diana Mutz as the co-PIs of TESS.

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