GorillaTM

Measure social interaction without spending months in the lab

  • Build tasks that allow multiple participants to take part together
  • Easily synchronise responses and allow communication via video and text chat
  • No coding required
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Multiplayer In 90 Seconds

  • Build your multiplayer tasks visually in the Task Builder tools
  • Enable text and video chat
  • Easily synchronise responses between participants

Intuitive Interface

Your research. Make it social.

  • Allow participants to take part in your tasks together simultaneously in real-time
  • Enable communication with text and video chat
  • Synchronise responses to build protocols where participants interact with another
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Participant Recruitment

Collect data from large diverse samples - in hours, not months

  • Integrates with Prolific, CloudResearch, Sona Systems and other recruitment platforms
  • Create a link to share via email or social media
  • Collect data easily from participants in the lab
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Gorilla allows us to quickly test another paradigm without redeveloping multiplayer functionality

"We chose Gorilla for our research on Group Dynamics because of its component structure. It means we can quickly test another paradigm without redeveloping multiplayer functionality. Multiplayer is part of the wider experiment building ecosystem. So you can use it in a number of unique ways. I'm confident that it's always going to be available and reliable. So that's kind of huge."

David Shacklette

Skills Lab Product Manager, Harvard University

Meet your multiplayer building blocks

You add ready-built blocks of functionality to your experiments - and Gorilla handles all of the complex synchronisation for you.

So you have everything you need for your participants to know they are interacting with real people.

Lobby

Group participants together in a virtual waiting room, so they can be matched before your task begins

Chat Box

Allow players to communicate with each other - all text chat records are available in your data

Multiplayer

Show elements of your tasks to certain players, and not others

Video Chat

Allow participants to communicate as though they are on a video call

Advance

Control whether one - or all players - determine the speed at which all players advance through your task

Show Response

Capture a response from one player and show it to another player in real time

Clone ready-built multiplayer tasks to get started in seconds

Dictator Game

Participants take turns to distribute gold between players. They can choose whether to distribute all the gold, or whether to leave some of it in the pile. Gold left in the pile is made visible to the other player.

Ultimatum Game

Two players take turns being the one who offers and the one who responds. Their goal is to split a set amount of money in a single exchange.

Video and Text chat

Use video and text chat to allow your participants to communicate.

Learn More About How Multiplayer Works

Data Output

Get beautifully structured data that's easy to work with

  • Easily load your data into Excel, SPSS, R or your stats package of choice
  • Well-structured CSV data output
  • Download your data in long form or short form
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It took me less than two weeks to set it all up!

"I finally had some time to sit through the experiment again yesterday and it looks absolutely amazing! And I’m even more amazed that it took me less than two weeks to set it all up. Thanks for making this possible!"

Eva Poort

UCL

Academic Support

Our team of Gorilla experts are academics
just like you

On-demand support

Our friendly, qualified support team respond rapidly - usually the same day!

Access a library of webinars and step-by-step documentation

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Mixed Methods Research

Explore Gorilla's full range of academic research tools

Designed for the way your work unfolds

Gorilla gives labs, departments and research teams the power to address their research questions at scale

Easy Collaboration

Move your work forward quickly - with tools that make it easy to share your work for review, delegate experiment admin, and create shared libraries of pre-approved resources

Version Control

Explore new ideas with confidence, knowing your work saves automatically. You can't break it or lose your work. And you can make changes quickly - even after you've lanched your study

Code Editor

Want to add your own code without managing a whole server? Gorilla is a no-code experiment builder, but those who prefer the option can easily add scripts to extend the tools

Your All In One Platform For Academic Research

Tools to make good science easy for students, researchers and supervisors

Teachers

One Tool For All Your Teaching

  • Help your students collect publishable data independently - without getting bogged down in code
  • Teach all your research methods with one intuitive platform - with tools designed for teaching
  • Make experimental psychology fun and accessible

Read about using Gorilla for teaching

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A Much Richer Learning Experience

"What we've managed to do with Gorilla is give students the tools and templates to make their own experiments, with minimal supervision. Students can go out and test a hypothesis via social media. Results flood in from all over the world, and they're creating this incredible range of studies. It's a much richer learning experience."

Dr Daniel Richardson

Senior Lecturer, UCL

No compromises on ethics, privacy, security or compliance

Gorilla is approved by 300+ universities worldwide

Hosted in the EU

Penetration Tested

Two-factor Authentication (2FA)

Conformant with WCAG 2.1 Level AA. VPAT available.

Fully GDPR and BPS (The British Psychological Society) compliant

Easy application to your Internal Review Board (IRB) or Ethics Committee

Get Started For Free

Shortcut the weeks and months to collect high-quality data. Get on-demand support to build, preview and pre-test your experiment with our free plan.

Choose from dozens of sample tasks to clone and customise for replication. Access free, 5-minute tutorials and a library of bite-size resources.

When you’re satisfied you can measure what you want to measure, choose from academia-friendly pricing tiers, to host and start collecting data.

With group savings - great for labs and departments.

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Making Good Science Easy For 30,000+ Academic Researchers

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